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didactic

(of works of art or literature) containing a political or moral message to which aesthetic considerations are subordinated

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No references found			It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. Pygmalion by Shaw, George Bernard View in context The Hesiodic poems fall into two groups according as they are didactic (technical or gnomic) or genealogical: the first group centres round the "Works and Days", the second round the "Theogony". Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context He had already, in 1682, written a didactic poem, 'Religio Laici' (A Layman's Religion), in which he set forth his reasons for adhering to the English Church. A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context			Dictyoceratida Dictyonellidina dictyonema bed Dictyonema pavonium Dictyonema Shale dictyosome Dictyosomes Dictyospongiidae Dictyosporae dictyospore dictyostele Dictyosteliaceae Dictyotales dictyotheton dicyandiamide dicyanide dicyanoargentates I dicycle dicyclohexylamine dicyclohexylcarbodiimide Dicyemida Dicynodontia DID DIDA Didache didactic Didactic Literature Didactics Didaskalos diddle Diddley, Bo Didelot, Charles Louis didelphic Didelphidae dideoxy method Diderot Diderot, Denis didgeridoo Didgori, Battle of Didion, Joan Didius Julianus Dido Dido and Aeneas Dido's problem didodecyl ether Didolodontidae Didon, Henri Didot Didot family didot point Didot, François			Did You Ever Wonder Did You Facebook Him/Her Did You Get My Message? Did you hear? Did You Just Get the Internet Today? Did You Know That Did You Know? Did You Like Did You Miss Me? Did You Notice? Did You See That? Did You See The Size Of That Thing? Did You See This Did You Think to Pray? DID&P DiD-1 DID/DNIS DID/DOD DID/SRA DiDA DiDA DiDAC Didache Didache didachist didact didactic Didactic fiction Didactic literature Didactic literature Didactic poetry didactical didactical didactical didactical didactically didactically didactically didactically didacticism didacticism didacticism didacticism Didacticity didactics didactics Didactique des Langues et Cultures Étrangères Didactique des Langues et des Cultures Didactique des Langues Étrangères Didactique des Langues Étrangères et Secondes Didactique du Français Langue Étrangère Didactique du Français Langue Étrangère et Seconde Didactique du Français Langue Maternelle Didactique et Média pour Notre Génération Didactique Générale et Intervention Éducative Didactyl didactylism

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