Australia and New ZealandIn the past decade there has been a tremendous growth of interest in the literature of British Commonwealth countries, yet the standard histories of English literature have never given more than passing attention - if any - to works produced outside Britain and the United States. This new series, inaugurated with the volume on Australia and New Zealand described below, has been initiated to fill a longstanding need; future volumes will survey the literatures of Canada, the Caribbean countries, Africa, and Asia. |
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Page 142
... earlier work is made plainer in the major poem of the time , Dunciad Minimus ( 1950 ) , in the definition of the function and purpose of satire in Book III.22 The Wandering Islands , besides collecting poems published more than ten ...
... earlier work is made plainer in the major poem of the time , Dunciad Minimus ( 1950 ) , in the definition of the function and purpose of satire in Book III.22 The Wandering Islands , besides collecting poems published more than ten ...
Page 170
... earlier lyricism to a metaphysical manner , tauter , less prone to conventional feeling , wise , and compassionate . This remarkable maturing in manner has been accompanied by a move away from the subjects of her earlier work ...
... earlier lyricism to a metaphysical manner , tauter , less prone to conventional feeling , wise , and compassionate . This remarkable maturing in manner has been accompanied by a move away from the subjects of her earlier work ...
Page 223
... earlier days are issued almost as soon as they are found . In a land with little history , every scrap of information is deemed to have its value . After the 1880's , prose broadens out to encompass more diverse types of expression ...
... earlier days are issued almost as soon as they are found . In a land with little history , every scrap of information is deemed to have its value . After the 1880's , prose broadens out to encompass more diverse types of expression ...
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