Another Interesting Enquiry Suggested To Me By My General...
was the causes of the revival of French influence from I850 onwards. Our great romantics were almost wholly unaffected by French modes of thought, although Byron was more......
It Does Not Seem Fantastic To Assert That During Those
periods when we were affected either by puritanism or extreme moral earnestness, that is during our synthetic periods, we became almost totally un- affected by French literary......
Marginal Comment
By HAROLD NICOLSON I HAVE been busy this week preparing for the Franco-Belgian Tribune in Brussels a lecture on the subject of " French Influence Upon English Literature." As I......
Is This Influence Likely To Continue? If I Am Correct
in suggesting that during our synthetic periods we are obtuse to French habits of thought, whereas during our analytical periods we absorb this " poisonous honey " with delight,......
* * * * Wnat, In The First Place, Do
we mean by " influence "? Obviously, between two such contiguous countries there is bound to be a con- tinuous interchange of thought and feeling. Obviously, also, there must......
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