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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... Johnson's Dictionary , that as a lexicographer Johnson set out quite deliberately to assist this adoption into the language of the erstwhile specialized terminology of the sciences , attracting such words out of the laboratory into the ...
... Johnson's Dictionary , that as a lexicographer Johnson set out quite deliberately to assist this adoption into the language of the erstwhile specialized terminology of the sciences , attracting such words out of the laboratory into the ...
Page 239
... Johnson and Adams having a common source in Juvenal . Section VII appears to owe little to Smith and nothing to Johnson . It has an epigraph from Pope's Moral Essays : Tis from high life high characters are drawn , A saint in crape is ...
... Johnson and Adams having a common source in Juvenal . Section VII appears to owe little to Smith and nothing to Johnson . It has an epigraph from Pope's Moral Essays : Tis from high life high characters are drawn , A saint in crape is ...
Page 243
... Johnson , Samuel , lexicographer ' . One of them sends us to Adams declaring in 1815 , ' Johnson and Burke were more of Catholicks than Protes- tants at Heart and Gibbon became an Advocate for the Inquisition ' . The other , no more ...
... Johnson , Samuel , lexicographer ' . One of them sends us to Adams declaring in 1815 , ' Johnson and Burke were more of Catholicks than Protes- tants at Heart and Gibbon became an Advocate for the Inquisition ' . The other , no more ...
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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