Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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... literary and intellectual tradition . They have now become stern champions of the classics . Since they share the modern love of telling others what to do , they are determined to set the whole literary house of Britain in order . They ...
... literary and intellectual tradition . They have now become stern champions of the classics . Since they share the modern love of telling others what to do , they are determined to set the whole literary house of Britain in order . They ...
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... literary friends for poems and stories to fit pictures already drawn , and even , in that strange miscellany , Recollections of a Literary Life , indiscreetly wrote of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's personal affairs in a way which ...
... literary friends for poems and stories to fit pictures already drawn , and even , in that strange miscellany , Recollections of a Literary Life , indiscreetly wrote of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's personal affairs in a way which ...
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... literary man . A reader once complained to me , and with justice , that as a literary commentator I betrayed no pure literary predilections . “ You never devote your page , " he said fretfully , " to the influence of the Pleiades . You ...
... literary man . A reader once complained to me , and with justice , that as a literary commentator I betrayed no pure literary predilections . “ You never devote your page , " he said fretfully , " to the influence of the Pleiades . You ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
Copyright | |
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