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Lessing

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Les·sing  (lsng), Doris Born 1919.
British writer known for her five-volume series Children of Violence (1952-1969) and for The Golden Notebook (1962).
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 1729-1781.
German playwright and critic. A leader of the Enlightenment, he wrote the plays Minna von Barnheim (1763) and Nathan the Wise (1779).
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Noun1.LessingLessing - German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
2.Lessing - English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919)
Doris Lessing, Doris May Lessing


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Indeed, the attempt to write several thousand lines of pure descriptive poetry was in itself ill-judged, since as the German critic Lessing later pointed out, poetry is the natural medium not for description but for narration; and Thomson himself virtually admitted this in part by resorting to long dedications and narrative episodes to fill out his scheme.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
A powerful, intellectual analysis of some well-marked subject, in such form as makes literature enduring, is indeed what the world might have looked for from him: those institutes of aesthetics, for instance, which might exist, after Lessing and Hegel, but which certainly do not exist yet.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
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