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Page 78
... literary value and a pedestrian poem of none at all . The purest ( or , at least , the most intense ) literary form is the lyric poem , and after it comes elegiac , epic , dramatic , narrative , and expository verse . Most theories of ...
... literary value and a pedestrian poem of none at all . The purest ( or , at least , the most intense ) literary form is the lyric poem , and after it comes elegiac , epic , dramatic , narrative , and expository verse . Most theories of ...
Page 85
... literary scholarship , both to secure his position and to occupy his leisure . The great Ancient epoch of literary scholarship in ancient times centred on literary the library ( and university ) of Alexandria from its foun- scholarship ...
... literary scholarship , both to secure his position and to occupy his leisure . The great Ancient epoch of literary scholarship in ancient times centred on literary the library ( and university ) of Alexandria from its foun- scholarship ...
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... literary arts ; and its future would appear to be a predictably steady evolution of its present trends . Literary criticism ( P.M.K. ) Construed loosely , literary criticism is the reasoned con- sideration of literary works and issues ...
... literary arts ; and its future would appear to be a predictably steady evolution of its present trends . Literary criticism ( P.M.K. ) Construed loosely , literary criticism is the reasoned con- sideration of literary works and issues ...
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