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John Middleton Murry. art and literature have their places , a critic who therefore approaches literature with a definite conception of it as one among many parallel manifestations of the human spirit , and with a system of values ...
John Middleton Murry. art and literature have their places , a critic who therefore approaches literature with a definite conception of it as one among many parallel manifestations of the human spirit , and with a system of values ...
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... literature as a whole , and see the problem of style in its natural articulation instead of looking at it piecemeal . If you hold with conviction that all works of literature have , by some natural law , the form that is inevitable to ...
... literature as a whole , and see the problem of style in its natural articulation instead of looking at it piecemeal . If you hold with conviction that all works of literature have , by some natural law , the form that is inevitable to ...
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... literature we should probably have to go back to Rousseau . There we should discover the paradox of a man not primarily a literary artist whose work revolutionised the literature of the next hundred years . M. Proust likewise is not ...
... literature we should probably have to go back to Rousseau . There we should discover the paradox of a man not primarily a literary artist whose work revolutionised the literature of the next hundred years . M. Proust likewise is not ...
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