Contemporary British Literature: Outlines for Study, Indexes, Bibliographies, by John Matthews Manly and Edith RickertHarcourt, Brace, 1928 - 345 pages |
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Page 115 - My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see...
Page 167 - Under the Greenwood Tree; Far from the Madding Crowd; The Return of the Native; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Woodlanders; Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Jude the Obscure; and the two volumes of short stories; Wessex Tales and Life's Little Ironies.
Page 30 - You see now the scope of the claim I am making for the novel; it is to be the social mediator, the vehicle of understanding, the instrument of self-examination, the parade of morals and the exchange of manners, the factory of customs, the criticism of laws and institutions and of social dogmas and ideas.
Page 115 - It must strenuously aspire to the plasticity of sculpture, to the colour of painting, and to the magic suggestiveness of music— which is the art of arts.
Page 189 - The Case of Rebellious Susan. 1894. Michael and his Lost Angel. 1896. The Liars. 1897. Mrs. Dane's Defence. 1900.
Page 28 - Blake was no good because he learnt Italian at sixty in order to Study Dante, and we knew Dante was no good because he was so fond of Virgil, and Virgil was no good because Tennyson ran him, and as for Tennyson —well, Tennyson goes without saying.
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Page 96 - Arts (1919) — is especially rewarding to those interested in the kinship of the arts. THE LITTLE DANCERS Lonely, save for a few faint stars, the sky Dreams; and lonely, below, the little street Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy. Scarcely the dumb roar enters this soft retreat; And all is dark...
Page 115 - I have been called a writer of the sea, of the tropics, a descriptive writer, a romantic writer - and also a realist. But as a matter of fact all my concern has been with the 'ideal' value of things, events and people.