An Approach to Literature: A Collection of Prose and Verse with Analyses and DiscussionsCleanth Brooks, John Thibaut Purser, Robert Penn Warren F. S. Crofts & Company, 1939 - 634 pages |
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Page 114
... essay will indicate that Mr. Agar's intention is not merely to pur- vey these items of information to the reader . He is anx- ious to stir the reader's emotions also . Consequently , he arranges his facts so that they will lead the ...
... essay will indicate that Mr. Agar's intention is not merely to pur- vey these items of information to the reader . He is anx- ious to stir the reader's emotions also . Consequently , he arranges his facts so that they will lead the ...
Page 115
... essays , or in- formal essays . The reasons for using these terms are obvious . The tone of the essay is familiar , or informal , as opposed to a formal tone such as one might expect to find in a lecture or a sermon . The essay of this ...
... essays , or in- formal essays . The reasons for using these terms are obvious . The tone of the essay is familiar , or informal , as opposed to a formal tone such as one might expect to find in a lecture or a sermon . The essay of this ...
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... essay is not a closely knit , logical de- velopment . As Gorham B. Munson says of Emerson's work , " the looseness is so great that one may without loss to the development of the essay shuffle its paragraphs in a quantity of ...
... essay is not a closely knit , logical de- velopment . As Gorham B. Munson says of Emerson's work , " the looseness is so great that one may without loss to the development of the essay shuffle its paragraphs in a quantity of ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY | 17 |
Bret Harte | 35 |
Guy de Maupassant | 41 |
Copyright | |
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