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... George Orwell ) , the poet of realized experience in the individual instance . Many of his songs represent an abandonment to the emotional moment , a passionate acceptance of the reality and validity of the given situation : As fair art ...
... George Orwell ) , the poet of realized experience in the individual instance . Many of his songs represent an abandonment to the emotional moment , a passionate acceptance of the reality and validity of the given situation : As fair art ...
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... George Thomson , but Thomson was a more consciously genteel person than Johnson , and Burns had to fight with him continuously to prevent him from ' refining ' words and music and so ruining their character . He did not always succeed ...
... George Thomson , but Thomson was a more consciously genteel person than Johnson , and Burns had to fight with him continuously to prevent him from ' refining ' words and music and so ruining their character . He did not always succeed ...
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... GEORGE CRABBE : R. L. Brett C. DAY LEWIS : Clifford Dyment DEFOE : J. R. Sutherland CHARLES DICKENS : K. J. Fielding JOHN DONNE : Frank Kermode NORMAN DOUGLAS : Ian Greenlees JOHN DRYDEN : Bonamy Dobrée GEORGE ELIOT * : Lettice Cooper ...
... GEORGE CRABBE : R. L. Brett C. DAY LEWIS : Clifford Dyment DEFOE : J. R. Sutherland CHARLES DICKENS : K. J. Fielding JOHN DONNE : Frank Kermode NORMAN DOUGLAS : Ian Greenlees JOHN DRYDEN : Bonamy Dobrée GEORGE ELIOT * : Lettice Cooper ...
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