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The second of two parts of a critical history of 12 centuries of English literature. Professor Daiches guides the reader through this vastly complex and rich tradition, balancing historical background with literary criticism. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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And with Dicken's: "If Dickens moved on to profounder and better organised works , he never left behind him the qualities he demonstrated in Pickwick. He never lost his touch for the burlesque, his sense of the inn as symbolical well as a literal crossing of the ways". I must say I rather enjoyed "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Containing a Faithful record....etc". Though, as Daiches says "The Pickwick Papers" were originally planned as a series of sketches to accompany a set of sporting prints"......and it's a kind of "bedside book to be taken up and put down at any point".
I find myself agreeing with some of the critics at the time of publication such as this comment from Daniel George: "No other work of its kind is so well composed and so well proportioned, so continuously interesting, so liberal and so good-humoured".
An interesting thing about this sort of work is that it doesn't age very much. Maybe, today, we lose some context from being unable to compare these classical writers with modern writers but for it's time it remains pretty much rock-solid.
Happy to give it 5 stars. ( )