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XXXIX TO MY mind , the drama took a wrong turning when the demand for realism led it to abandon the ornament of verse . Verse has a specific dramatic value as anyone can see by observing in himself the thrilling effect of a tirade in ...
XXXIX TO MY mind , the drama took a wrong turning when the demand for realism led it to abandon the ornament of verse . Verse has a specific dramatic value as anyone can see by observing in himself the thrilling effect of a tirade in ...
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I have always eschewed the prophetic role and have left to others the reformation of my fellows , but I cannot but state my belief that the prose drama to which I have given so much of my life will soon be dead .
I have always eschewed the prophetic role and have left to others the reformation of my fellows , but I cannot but state my belief that the prose drama to which I have given so much of my life will soon be dead .
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In the modern drama I think no one on occasion approached it more closely than Racine . But at the cost of how many a limitation ! It was a cherry stone that he carved with infinite skill . Only idolatry can refuse to see the great ...
In the modern drama I think no one on occasion approached it more closely than Racine . But at the cost of how many a limitation ! It was a cherry stone that he carved with infinite skill . Only idolatry can refuse to see the great ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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