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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... Shakespeare ; as a standard so daunting that we cannot afford to be at all constantly aware of it . Shakespeare represents , for all his successors , a vast area of the English language and the English imagination which is as it were ...
... Shakespeare ; as a standard so daunting that we cannot afford to be at all constantly aware of it . Shakespeare represents , for all his successors , a vast area of the English language and the English imagination which is as it were ...
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... Shakespeare . Most great English poets are inimitable in a way in which Dante was not . If you try to imitate Shakespeare you will certainly produce a series of stilted , forced , and violent distortions of language . The lan- guage of ...
... Shakespeare . Most great English poets are inimitable in a way in which Dante was not . If you try to imitate Shakespeare you will certainly produce a series of stilted , forced , and violent distortions of language . The lan- guage of ...
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... Shakespeare as representing an organic and mutually enhancing rela- tion between the arts and society , such as we do not have and cannot hope for . In this wistful sense Shakespeare is indeed continually before us as an example of what ...
... Shakespeare as representing an organic and mutually enhancing rela- tion between the arts and society , such as we do not have and cannot hope for . In this wistful sense Shakespeare is indeed continually before us as an example of what ...
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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