A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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Page 271
... style in blank verse in parts of the play is at an acme of looseness . Tennyson noticed this and suggested that the verse was like that of John Fletcher . His friend James Spedding made a famous study of the play and assigned parts of ...
... style in blank verse in parts of the play is at an acme of looseness . Tennyson noticed this and suggested that the verse was like that of John Fletcher . His friend James Spedding made a famous study of the play and assigned parts of ...
Page 284
... style of Beaumont is much like that of Shake- speare's middle period and of much contemporary blank verse . There are no immediate means of identifying his style , but Massinger's parts can be picked out with a good deal of certainty ...
... style of Beaumont is much like that of Shake- speare's middle period and of much contemporary blank verse . There are no immediate means of identifying his style , but Massinger's parts can be picked out with a good deal of certainty ...
Page 541
... style ; but he insists that the one indispensable beauty is , after all , truth , and that ' the chief stimulus of good style is to possess a full , rich , complex matter to grapple with . ' Only , he asks of style that it should ...
... style ; but he insists that the one indispensable beauty is , after all , truth , and that ' the chief stimulus of good style is to possess a full , rich , complex matter to grapple with . ' Only , he asks of style that it should ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD 1 The Temper of the Middle Ages | 3 |
The AngloSaxons | 5 |
Some Fundamental Facts Relating to Old English Literature | 8 |
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