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But Western society makes being seen as important as , if not more important than , seeing , for on being seen depends one's sense of being , one's identity . At the level of comedy we have the foppish colonel of Letter 39 , whose ...
But Western society makes being seen as important as , if not more important than , seeing , for on being seen depends one's sense of being , one's identity . At the level of comedy we have the foppish colonel of Letter 39 , whose ...
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Of the two poems included in the volume , one , " The Double Transformation " ( originally “ The Double Metamorphosis " ) is particularly relevant to the matter of seeing and being seen . Jack Bookworm , a clergyman of 36 , is smitten ...
Of the two poems included in the volume , one , " The Double Transformation " ( originally “ The Double Metamorphosis " ) is particularly relevant to the matter of seeing and being seen . Jack Bookworm , a clergyman of 36 , is smitten ...
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The final count in Goldsmith's indictment of plutocracy in ' The Traveller ” is that the real wealth of the nation is devalued ; people are now items to be commercially bartered : a Have we not seen , round Britain's peopled shore ...
The final count in Goldsmith's indictment of plutocracy in ' The Traveller ” is that the real wealth of the nation is devalued ; people are now items to be commercially bartered : a Have we not seen , round Britain's peopled shore ...
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| Title | Oliver Goldsmith Revisited Issue 487 of Twayne's English authors series |
| Authors | Former Chair of English Peter Dixon, Peter Dixon |
| Contributor | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Twayne Publishers, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0805770089, 9780805770087 |
| Length | 157 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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