Oliver Goldsmith: The Critical HeritageG.S. Rousseau Routledge, 31 жовт. 2013 р. - 412 стор. The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to reaad the material themselves. |
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... language; and perhaps there are few characters Of purer dignity [who] have been described thanthat excellent pastor, rising above sorrow and oppression, and labouring for the conversion of those felons, into whose company he had been ...
... language; and perhaps there are few characters Of purer dignity [who] have been described thanthat excellent pastor, rising above sorrow and oppression, and labouring for the conversion of those felons, into whose company he had been ...
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... language, as evidenced in the passage by Frederic Harrison cited above. Inasmuch as this work, in the eyes of most critics, surpasses all his others by so vast a margin, it behooves me to explicate its lure. Dr Johnson, one of its ...
... language, as evidenced in the passage by Frederic Harrison cited above. Inasmuch as this work, in the eyes of most critics, surpasses all his others by so vast a margin, it behooves me to explicate its lure. Dr Johnson, one of its ...
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... language is read.'25 Throughout the Regency and Victorian periods one discovers critics vacillating between enraptured praise and mild approbation. Some, like Hazlitt,26 were brief and insipid in their comments; others like George Craik ...
... language is read.'25 Throughout the Regency and Victorian periods one discovers critics vacillating between enraptured praise and mild approbation. Some, like Hazlitt,26 were brief and insipid in their comments; others like George Craik ...
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... language understood by the common man. Goldsmith's 'sweetness of tone' especially excited his best critics, although they were vague about its role in the book. It pervades the whole work and seems intrinsically tied to the vicar's ...
... language understood by the common man. Goldsmith's 'sweetness of tone' especially excited his best critics, although they were vague about its role in the book. It pervades the whole work and seems intrinsically tied to the vicar's ...
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... language :42 If The Traveller had been written in prose, or were stripped of its poetical ornament, it would allure no readers at all; and I am afraid that with the same alteration many an argument in Dryden and Pope would share the ...
... language :42 If The Traveller had been written in prose, or were stripped of its poetical ornament, it would allure no readers at all; and I am afraid that with the same alteration many an argument in Dryden and Pope would share the ...
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The Traveller or a Prospect of Society December
1764 | 29 |
The Vicar of Wakefield 27 March 1766 | 44 |
The Good Natured Man 29 January 1768 | 70 |
The Deserted Village 26 May 1770 | 76 |
She Stoops to Conquer March 1773 | 115 |
Retaliation I9 April 1774 posthumously published | 128 |
History of the Earth and Animated Nature 1 July 1774 posthumously published | 135 |
On Goldsmiths Life and Works | 157 |
Select Bibliography | 359 |
Index | 361 |
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