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Works of Charles Dickens: Critical Commentary, Essay Questions and Bibliography

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Dickens, Charles

Dickens, Charles
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critical Commentary, Essay Questions and Bibliography

Critical Commentary

From the beginning, Dickens' work has commanded the attention of critics
who have, for the most part, been reduced to attempting to explain the reasons
for his enormous popularity in spite of numerous obvious flaws in the method
of his work. Among the best of the early critics was Hypolite Taine, a famous
French critic of English literature and a contemporary of Dickens. He was
among the first to note what later critics have come to recognize as flaws in
Dickens' style and to ...

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