THE SHORT OXFORD HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

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EVENTS LITERARY WORKS 1791 Flight of Louis XVI 1791 Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson; Paine, The Rights of Man (Part I) 1792 Siege of Tuileries; September Massacres 1792 Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Holcroft, Anna St Ives 1793 Execution of Louis XVI; Reign of Terror; 1793 Blake, America; Godwin, Political Britain and France at war 1794 Executions of Danton and Robespierre; Habeas Corpus Act suspended in Britain; Holcroft acquitted of treason charge Justice; Smith, The Old Manor House 1794 Blake, Songs of Experience; Godwin, Caleb Williams; Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho; Holcroft, Hugh Trevor 1795 Directory established in France; Speenhamland system of poor relief 1796 Bonaparte’s Italian campaign 1796 Burney, Camilla; Bage, Hermsprong; 1798 Nelson’s victory at Battle of the Nile; rebellion in Ireland Lewis, The Monk 1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads; Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman 1799 Napoleon, First Consul 1800 Act of Union with Ireland 1800 Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent 1801 Union of British and Irish Parliaments; Habeas Corpus Act again suspended 1802 Peace of Amiens 1802 Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border; foundation of the Edinburgh Review; Cobbett begins his Political Register 1803 Renewal of war against France 1804 Napoleon, Emperor of France 1804 Blake, Milton 1805 Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar 1805 Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel; Wordsworth at work on a version of The Prelude 1807 Abolition of the slave trade in the British 1807 Wordsworth, Poems Empire 1808 Peninsular War begins 1808 Scott, Marmion; Hunt, The Examiner 1809 Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; foundation of the Quarterly Review 1810 Crabbe, The Borough; Scott, The Lady of the Lake 1811 Prince of Wales becomes Regent; Luddite 1811 Austen, Sense and Sensibility riots 1812 French retreat from Moscow 1812 Crabbe, Tales; Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage; Edgeworth, The Absentee 1813 Austen, Pride and Prejudice; Shelley, Queen Mab 1814 Abdication of Napoleon; restoration of Louis 1814 Wordsworth, The Excursion; Byron, The XVIII; Stephenson’s steam locomotive Corsair; Austen, Mansfield Park; Scott, Waverley; Burney, The Wanderer 1815 Battle of Waterloo 1815 Wordsworth, Poems; Scott, Guy Mannering 1816 Coleridge, Christabel and Kubla Khan; Shelley, Alastor; Austen, Emma; Scott, The Antiquary and Old Mortality; Peacock, Headlong Hall 1817 Habeas Corpus Act suspended 1817 Coleridge, Biographia Literaria; Byron, Manfred; Keats, Poems; Hazlitt, The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays; foundation of Blackwood’s Edinburgh
EVENTS LITERARY WORKS Magazine 1818 Habeas Corpus restored 1818 Austen, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; Keats, Endymion; Scott, Rob Roy and The Heart of Midlothian; Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Poets; Ferrier, Marriage 1819 Peterloo massacre 1819 Crabbe, Tales of the Hall; Byron, Don Juan; Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor 1820 Death of George III; accession of George IV 1820 Shelley, Prometheus Unbound; Keats, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems; Clare, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life; Scott, Ivanhoe; Lamb, Essays of Elia begun; Cobbett, Rural Rides begun; Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer 1821 Greek War of Independence 1821 Byron, Cain; Shelley, Adonais; Clare, The Village Minstrel; De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater; Galt, Annals of the Parish 1822 Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sketches; Byron, The Vision of Judgement; Galt, 1824 National Gallery opened; death of Byron in Greece 1825 Financial crisis; opening of Stockton and Darlington Railway 1828 Repeal of Test and Corporation Acts 1829 Catholic Emancipation Act 1830 Death of George IV; accession of William IV; opening of Manchester and Liverpool railway The Entail 1824 Scott, Redgauntlet; Hogg, Private Confessions of a Justified Sinner; foundation of the Westminster Review 1825 Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age; publication of Pepys’s diary 1827 Clare, The Shepherd’s Calendar; Keble, The Christian Year 1830 Tennyson, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical 1831 Unsuccessful introduction of Reform Bills; riots in Bristol and elsewhere 1832 Reform Act; Death of Scott 1832 Tennyson, Poems (dated 1833) 1833 Abolition of Slavery; Keble’s Assize sermon 1833 Carlyle, Sartor Resartus 1834 New Poor Law; burning of Houses of Parliament; Fox Talbot’s first photograph 1835 Municipal Reform Act 1835 Browning, Paraclesus 1836 Dickens, Sketches by ‘Boz’ and the first number of Pickwick Papers (1836-7) 1837 Death of William IV; accession of Victoria 1837 Carlyle, The French Revolution; Dickens, Oliver Twist 1838 ‘People’s Charter’ published; London- 1838 Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby Birmingham Railway opened 1839 Penny Postage Act 1839 Carlyle, Chartism 1840 Opium War; new Houses of Parliament begun; first presentation of People’s Charter to Parliament 1840 Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge (1840-1); Browning, Sordello 1841 Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero Worship; 1842 Chartist riots; second presentation of Charter Newman, Tract XC; foundation of Punch 1842 Tennyson, Poems; Browning, Dramatic to Parliament; Copyright Act Lyrics 1843 Theatre Regulation Bill (monopoly removed 1843 Macaulay, Essays; Carlyle, Past and
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THE SHORT OXFORD HISTORY OF ENGLISH
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Gower, Lydgate, and Hoccleve Poetry
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Index A NOTE ON THE TEXT IN the cas
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justify its continued existence. Ch
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suggested, in England, at least,
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(1948, also derived from Scrutiny e
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inappropriate to a history of ‘En
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appears to have remained a more gen
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[p. 22] and community. Around these
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moves to a lengthy, and non-Scriptu
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where king, nobleman, and peasant s
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[p. 33] cathedrals at Canterbury (b
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swords, their scales gleaming like
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daughter Marie de Champagne, woman
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strides up to his missing head, pic
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daughter only to awaken in the arbo
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complaint, struck certain English o
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figure of Anima (the soul) that Pie
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embodying the spirit of chivalry, s
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ounds of marriage (‘In wyfhod I w
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Like them, he suggests a tense, shi
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virtue of his influence, responsibl
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We cannot tell precisely what impac
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[p. 73] The yettis [gates] of hell
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variously tempted by the vices and
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Malory and Caxton In October 1471 M
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it a firm sense of England as a nat
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‘delectable’ and whose language
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Wyatt’s love-poetry suggests an e
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playing the role of a sophisticated
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The Literature of the English Refor
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lasting impact on English letters w
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In the hands of John Foxe’s frien
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dignity of the modern gentleman poe
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Although Stella is portrayed as the
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uilt around expressions of conflict
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to the throne by providing a troop
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volumes as The Itinerary of John Le
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Queen who was the great cacigue [ch
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long account of the historical deri
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Neither history nor the image of th
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How things still unexpectedly have
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dreames inticed man to doe | Follie
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And threw him gaudy toys to please
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When I have seen such interchange o
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dramatic explorations of the theme
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Shakespeare’s Plays Politics and
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y the medieval concept of rule by a
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[p. 157] If throughout Hamlet suici
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women begin to take place on someth
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The internal ‘problems’ that ar
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Since its awkward beginnings in pla
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misanthropy to public scrutiny and
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their own ease’ and out of vice,
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passivity into striking action. Asp
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In Middleton’s two grimly chillin
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[p. 183] princes’. This prayer co
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Bible-centred Puritanism of the Pil
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Hercules and its message was reinfo
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unhappy extension, on Scottish Chur
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profound and consistent perturbatio
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in 1970), managed to work secretly
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[p. 204] flows from his side it is
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Here I joyn hands, and thrust my st
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‘brave Soule’ had committed ‘
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actions for which we have received
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distinguish and define the componen
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estructuring of institutions by men
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the two centuries that followed. Ha
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people’. As an alternative, Milto
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familiar with all these works, was
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The ‘second Adam’ is here to re
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awarded to saints, soldiers, athlet
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undergraduate, was not transcribed
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Amid the diverse setbacks and perse
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Susanna Hopton, a grouping less for
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and Dryden. No clear distinction be
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master a mangled sheet of verses. L
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oth to purge Dryden’s verse of it
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talent. She served at court as a ma
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[p. 265] œuvres of the upright ‘
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of Shakespeare’s comedies and the
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taken as indicative of honest genia
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vice, selfishness and pride being t
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moves to give relief to English Cat
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notion of ‘wit’ than they do fr
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hostility towards ‘drudge Dryden
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the ‘use of Riches’ and in the
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the diversity and didacticism of it
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are self evident in an educated obs
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heroic opportunities for a new gene
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their social class and education, p
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through six London editions in its
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upright Sir Charles, and she in tur
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Fielding’s least loved work. In 1
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digressions as ‘incontestably ...
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that tempts your wandering eyes | A
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‘Oisean’, the son of the warrio
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[p. 327] refined, pleasure in the d
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oth for the relative pessimism of t
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[p. 334] felt in the work of a new
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sensibility and his innate religios
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[p. 341] Figaro for the English sta
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despairer to take his place. The ef
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In Desmond (1792) Smith had made a
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a walk outdoors and in an evening
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And it grew both day and night. Til
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the poet and in a poem of his own a
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from them. For his immediate succes
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The Mariner’s experience is tangl
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The poem illustrates Crabbe’s ski
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importance of the process of learni
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might be attempted for my own count
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the self explorative to the polemic
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politics he tended to concentrate o
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of the inspiring ‘Power’ behind
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[p. 388] Who are these coming to th
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Wordsworth’s mind may well be ‘
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temperate monarchy against the fore
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High Victorian Literature 1830-1880
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Although, to an important degree, t
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which he lived sharpened the nature
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some of Dickens’s most fluently i
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sensitivities. The subtitle of Hypa
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profession seems to me to be as ser
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Charlotte Brontë (1816-55) admired
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ancestral house of the title is, as
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To their haven under the hill; But
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the Nazarenes, stood at the pinnacl
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The Brownings Elizabeth Barrett Bro
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may noisily explode in its vexation
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from the work of his rivals. The Wo
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which explores a series of dense et
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moralism and it attempts to establi
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(Such as one fancies may be in a st
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of England known from its place of
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educators should be men in Holy Ord
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who reads Hardy, Meredith, and Kipl
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ultimate truth in Art and Life and
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ultimately defies male domination a
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Jack the Ripper might serve to sugg
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the short stories which he began pu
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terrible fall marked by his trial a
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settings, like his preoccupations,
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Synge’s more conventionally shape
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stage before being ushered off agai
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‘civilized’ Italians. Forster
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The mood is not simply nostalgic. L
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Rhymers’ Club, whose members and
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with the American poet Robert Frost
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of transfiguration in an intermixtu
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wasteful devastation of the war. Th
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epresented. A month later Labour de
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Watson) have slumped disastrously.
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glancing insights into the identiti
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unapproachable, demanding, and ‘d
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ases for social relationships. This
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‘Verbotens’ and about despising
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medieval spiritual and a poetic aut
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The most striking effects in The Wa
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autobiography, that the Façade poe
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Stephen Dedalus’s admiration for
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itself ambiguous. Gunmen on both si
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The military career of David Jones
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only takes them as far as Liverpool
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exposes the surface values and the
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149 writers out of which 127 procla
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dad’s on the dole: | Two shilling
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