Twentieth-century Literature in RetrospectReuben Arthur Brower The sixteen essays in this second volume of Harvard English Studies explore and reevaluate the work of twentieth-century writers and critics from Joyce and James to Iris Murdoch and Mailer, from Yeats and Eliot to critics and poets of the present generation. Part I, "Writers and Critics," includes among other essays an exploration of erotic imagination in Dubliners and a study of Dickensian motifs in Murdoch's London novels. Other articles deal with the present standing of Yeats's and Eliot's poetry, the prosodies of free verse, and the role of the writer in modern fiction. Part II, "Twentieth Century Valuations Reconsidered" assesses some of the influential twentieth-century critical positions on Shakespeare, the pastoral, Donne, the metaphysical poets, Milton, Pope, and Wordsworth. Distinguished contributors include Josephine Miles, Frank Kermode, F. R. Leavis, and Christopher Ricks. |
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... imagination has been fed by the priest and not , so far as one can tell , by anyone else . In other words , the ... imaginative stimulation he provides , is suggested by the dream rendered in two parts : the first part in its proper ...
... imagination has been fed by the priest and not , so far as one can tell , by anyone else . In other words , the ... imaginative stimulation he provides , is suggested by the dream rendered in two parts : the first part in its proper ...
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... imagination that later ages would try to vulgarize or destroy . For American " New Critics " like Brooks and Tate , Pope demonstrated the " anti - Platonic " energy of wit and paradox . For Geoffrey Tillotson Pope showed the validity of ...
... imagination that later ages would try to vulgarize or destroy . For American " New Critics " like Brooks and Tate , Pope demonstrated the " anti - Platonic " energy of wit and paradox . For Geoffrey Tillotson Pope showed the validity of ...
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... imagination , concentrates in one spot the " vital humour " that should nourish the whole psychic economy . The " dang'rous art ” ( 143 ) of imagination subverts the art of reason and we are back on the dark isthmus , in the chaos of ...
... imagination , concentrates in one spot the " vital humour " that should nourish the whole psychic economy . The " dang'rous art ” ( 143 ) of imagination subverts the art of reason and we are back on the dark isthmus , in the chaos of ...
Contents
MONROE ENGEL Dubliners and Erotic Expectation | 3 |
HELEN GARDNER T S Eliot | 27 |
FRANK KERMODE The English Novel circa 1907 | 45 |
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A. R. Ammons achieved action Arnold attitudes Bruno's Dream called century character criticism death Donne Donne's dream Dubliners Eliot Empson English essay experience expression F. R. Leavis fear feel fiction free verse Frost heart human I. A. Richards imagination impulses Iris Murdoch Joyce kind language Leavis less lines literary London look lyric Marvell meaning ment metaphor metaphysical metaphysical poetry Milton mind Miss Murdoch modern moral narrator nature Nora novel Paradise Lost passage passion pastoral performance phrase play poem poet poet's poetic poetry Pope Pope's prepositions prosody question reader Renaissance reprinted by permission rhythm Richards romantic Ruined Cottage scene seems sense sentence Shakespeare Sherrington stanza Stevens story style Symbolist T. S. Eliot Theocritus things thought tion tone tradition truth turn voice W. B. Yeats Wallace Stevens whole words Wordsworth writing Yeats Yeats's York
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Twentieth-century Short Story Explication: Supplement 3. 1981-1984, Volume 4 Warren S. Walker No preview available - 1977 |