Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 18 AIL 1765 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Where the Band Ends
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The idea
The boundary with the next band is conventional rather than sharp. Wilde died in nineteen hundred, Hardy wrote into the twentieth century, and Yeats began in the eighteen nineties. Treat the boundary as a convenience and not as a fact about the writing.
In practice
The boundary is a convenience.
Where people slip
Writers cross it in both directions.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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