 | Lionel Kelly - 1987 - 380 pages
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 | Harold Bloom - 1987 - 192 pages
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 | George Alexander Kennedy, Marshall Brown, Cambridge University Press, H. B. Nisbet, Ian Johnson, Christa Knellwolf, Raman Selden, Alastair J. Minnis, Claude Rawson, A. Walton Litz, Christopher Norris, Louis Menand, Lawrence Rainey - 1989 - 532 pages
...allegorical Eastern tale, Rasselas (1759). Johnson prefers reality to mere realism: 'I cannot see . . . why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately...all that presents itself without discrimination.' The distance traversed in the Romantic period can be measured by noting that what Johnson hates is... | |
 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - 1994 - 276 pages
...Johnson's distaste for realism is notorious: "If the world he promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why...shows all that presents itself without discrimination" (Rambler no. 4, 31 March 1750; 3: 22). He considers it neither useful nor appropriate for the novelist... | |
 | James Kirwan - 1990 - 212 pages
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 | Patrick Reilly - 1991 - 192 pages
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 | Judith Moore - 1994 - 288 pages
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If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a ' mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination. 
