Literature and Reality, 1600-1800 |
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... reality the writers of the time admitted into their work , and with the way in which literary re- actions to reality change over the period . The cultural and intellectual background provides explanation for the results of literary ...
... reality the writers of the time admitted into their work , and with the way in which literary re- actions to reality change over the period . The cultural and intellectual background provides explanation for the results of literary ...
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... reality at all . At first he poses as the voice of nature , anxious at the unnecessary privations of the ascetic soul , but in his debate with the Lady shows that his blandishments are in reality those of a nature perverted into the ...
... reality at all . At first he poses as the voice of nature , anxious at the unnecessary privations of the ascetic soul , but in his debate with the Lady shows that his blandishments are in reality those of a nature perverted into the ...
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... reality in an a priori manner is shifting to a more empirical approach whereby that reality is seen for what it is before the attempt is made to make sense of it . Gray's poem had a special meaning for Johnson , who asked that ' the ...
... reality in an a priori manner is shifting to a more empirical approach whereby that reality is seen for what it is before the attempt is made to make sense of it . Gray's poem had a special meaning for Johnson , who asked that ' the ...
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