Two Centuries of the English NovelJohn Murray, 1911 - 340 pages |
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Sir Harold Herbert Williams. CHAPTER II DANIEL DEFOE ( 1661 ? -1731 ) . FOR most people Defoe means one book , and that , a book which has come to be regarded as a boy's tale of adventure . But for the Londoner of Defoe's day Robinson ...
Sir Harold Herbert Williams. CHAPTER II DANIEL DEFOE ( 1661 ? -1731 ) . FOR most people Defoe means one book , and that , a book which has come to be regarded as a boy's tale of adventure . But for the Londoner of Defoe's day Robinson ...
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... Defoe's life will go far as a commentary upon his charac- teristics as an imaginative writer . To deny his genuine talent would be absurd ; but he could be , and very generally was , a deplorable hodman of literature . Nobody can live ...
... Defoe's life will go far as a commentary upon his charac- teristics as an imaginative writer . To deny his genuine talent would be absurd ; but he could be , and very generally was , a deplorable hodman of literature . Nobody can live ...
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... Defoe tossed Robinson Crusoe off like a cook turning a pancake . There is hardly a x quality of artistic craftsmanship in the book , or in any other of Defoe's novels ; he has no dra- matic sense , he is no psychologist , and there was ...
... Defoe tossed Robinson Crusoe off like a cook turning a pancake . There is hardly a x quality of artistic craftsmanship in the book , or in any other of Defoe's novels ; he has no dra- matic sense , he is no psychologist , and there was ...
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... Defoe's clearness of sight in a much - bespec- tacled age surprises us , not only in his novels , but in the ... Defoe for certain ideals which were beyond the common thought of his day - toleration , rational freedom of the subject ...
... Defoe's clearness of sight in a much - bespec- tacled age surprises us , not only in his novels , but in the ... Defoe for certain ideals which were beyond the common thought of his day - toleration , rational freedom of the subject ...
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... Defoe in handling pages of small detail , and yet getting on quickly with his story . He covers in five pages what occupies Richardson five hundred . And Defoe's narrative is often much more than a bare recital of episode : he discusses ...
... Defoe in handling pages of small detail , and yet getting on quickly with his story . He covers in five pages what occupies Richardson five hundred . And Defoe's narrative is often much more than a bare recital of episode : he discusses ...
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