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vii, 411 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Gateway to the great books ; v 5 |
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Gateway to the great books ; v 5.
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| Contents |
How should one read a book? / Virginia Woolf -- The study of poetry ; Sweetness and light / Matthew Arnold -- What is a classic? ; Montaigne / Sainte-Beuve -- Of beauty ; Of discourse ; Of studies / Sir Francis Bacon -- Of the standard of taste / David Hume -- On style ; On some forms of literature ; On the comparative place of interest and beauty in works of art / Arthur Schopenhauer -- On simple and sentimental poetry / Friedrich Schiller -- A defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Preface to leaves of grass / Walt Whitman. |
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My first acquaintance with poets ; On swift ; Of persons one would wish to have seen / William Hazlitt -- My first play ; Dream children, a reverie ; Sanity of true genius / Charles Lamb -- Preface to Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson -- Literature of knowledge and literature of power ; On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth / Thomas De Quincey -- Dante ; Tradition and the individual talent / Thomas Stearns Eliot. |
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Literature -- Collections.
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| Added Author |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
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Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888.
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Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 1804-1869.
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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
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Hume, David, 1711-1776.
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Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.
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Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
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Whitma, Walt, 1819-1892.
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Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830.
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Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
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De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859.
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
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