Word: plot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fifth poem has also been ascribed to him, but there is no real proof that it is his. The date of the poem is probably about the sixties or seventies of the 14th century. The poem is superior to any other of its kind in the English language. The plot is clear and the action is well managed. There is no padding. The great theme of all four of the author's poems is cleanness, appearing in "Gawain and the Green Knight," in Gawain's resistance to the temptations of the knight's wife...
...labor, and about eight pages of fiction. They would probably have been still more surprised if they had been told what the character of this fiction would be; that there would be four stories, of very different lengths, and on very different subjects, but all alike in that their plot and the method followed in working them out, would be very dramatic in all their essential - that is, that the four authors of these four stories would depend, each in his own way, on the vividness with which he could narrate a combination of incident which seemed...
...Tiens ta Foi" is carefully written and the plot is well sustained. There is just a sufficient touch of pathos to make it interesting and yet not cloy...
Both from the standpoint of workmanship and plot, "Bess," by R. T. French, takes first place among the stories in the last Advocate. The style is careful, great attention being paid to little points and delicate touches, and yet the whole story is complete and well-rounded...
...Ethel and Grace," however, is unsuccessful. Two childish students and a flirt don't make a pretty combination in themselves, and when they are introduced into a story with a common-place plot, and written carelessly, they have no excuse for existence. The author of "Ethel and Grace" can do much better work...