Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American LiteratureTo mark his seventieth birthday, Continuum published some of the critical writings of the man whom the London Times hailed as, "the preeminent English poet-critic of our time". |
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... Berkeley's period meant when he says of some one , as Berkeley says here of Clarke , that he is a candid person . For ' candid ' and ' candour ' are words of much narrower meaning now than in the eighteenth century . The idea of candour ...
... Berkeley's period meant when he says of some one , as Berkeley says here of Clarke , that he is a candid person . For ' candid ' and ' candour ' are words of much narrower meaning now than in the eighteenth century . The idea of candour ...
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... Berkeley's letter . If it raises a smile , it is at Berkeley's simplicity , in thinking Clarke could set him right without entering into a dispute with him . And yet perhaps this is not simplicity at all . It takes two to make a quarrel ...
... Berkeley's letter . If it raises a smile , it is at Berkeley's simplicity , in thinking Clarke could set him right without entering into a dispute with him . And yet perhaps this is not simplicity at all . It takes two to make a quarrel ...
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... Berkeley was held by Yeats . When he writes , in ' Blood and the Moon ' , of ' God - appointed Berkeley that proved all things a dream ' , he seems to lean towards the older view . Yet Dr Luce himself ( Berkeley's Immaterialism , Pre ...
... Berkeley was held by Yeats . When he writes , in ' Blood and the Moon ' , of ' God - appointed Berkeley that proved all things a dream ' , he seems to lean towards the older view . Yet Dr Luce himself ( Berkeley's Immaterialism , Pre ...
Contents
Contents 1 Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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