The Literary Career of Thomas Love PeacockColumbia University, 1966 - 339 pages |
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... Peacock " n'a pas eu de vie extérieure " -- our interest will be less in what he did than in how and what he wrote . Peacock's writings are more or less equally divided between poems , essays , and novels , and I have arranged my ...
... Peacock " n'a pas eu de vie extérieure " -- our interest will be less in what he did than in how and what he wrote . Peacock's writings are more or less equally divided between poems , essays , and novels , and I have arranged my ...
Page 225
... Peacock's sanctioning of charity in- volves an implicit apology both for ... novels -- as Mr. Dyson himself agrees -- are not intended to be answers for ... Peacock's fiction . Very often Peacock's irony is at his own expense ; if , for ...
... Peacock's sanctioning of charity in- volves an implicit apology both for ... novels -- as Mr. Dyson himself agrees -- are not intended to be answers for ... Peacock's fiction . Very often Peacock's irony is at his own expense ; if , for ...
Page 312
... Peacock's restraint . There is little in his novels ( and particularly little in Gryll Grange ) of Petronius ' gross burlesque of social customs -- certainly none of the explorations of sexual quiddities . In a sense Peacock I does for ...
... Peacock's restraint . There is little in his novels ( and particularly little in Gryll Grange ) of Petronius ' gross burlesque of social customs -- certainly none of the explorations of sexual quiddities . In a sense Peacock I does for ...
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Boyhood Verse and Palmyra | 11 |
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From The Dilettanti to Rhododaphne | 55 |
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