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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Page 81
... Pope who , having wavered towards a near - deism in the Essay on Man , recanted it in The Dunciad . ' It may be that this represents a change of heart in Pope ; but equally well it may witness to a sort of quite legitimate ...
... Pope who , having wavered towards a near - deism in the Essay on Man , recanted it in The Dunciad . ' It may be that this represents a change of heart in Pope ; but equally well it may witness to a sort of quite legitimate ...
Page 149
... Pope gets this quality as an echo from Horace ; Horace from the Alexandrians . ' This is certainly excessive . For one thing , Pope held so far as he could by the Renaissance principle of decorum , and adjusted his style according as he ...
... Pope gets this quality as an echo from Horace ; Horace from the Alexandrians . ' This is certainly excessive . For one thing , Pope held so far as he could by the Renaissance principle of decorum , and adjusted his style according as he ...
Page 216
... Pope and Dryden , both of whom appealed back to Denham in the same way . In fact of course the tradition was much older ; Carew , long before , had extolled Donne as ' masculine ' , and Suckling had told Godolphin ' not to write so ...
... Pope and Dryden , both of whom appealed back to Denham in the same way . In fact of course the tradition was much older ; Carew , long before , had extolled Donne as ' masculine ' , and Suckling had told Godolphin ' not to write so ...
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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