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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... Smart with English precedents of a sort - Crashaw , that is , and Pope – is that they are Roman Catholics . Smart on the other hand is militantly anti - Roman , as was inevitable , given his hope that St Paul's should supplant St ...
... Smart with English precedents of a sort - Crashaw , that is , and Pope – is that they are Roman Catholics . Smart on the other hand is militantly anti - Roman , as was inevitable , given his hope that St Paul's should supplant St ...
Page 175
... Smart's gratuitous footnote to the effect that Stonehenge was the work of giants . ) The Preface touches in disconnected fashion on three topics , and two of these - Smart's remarks on the ' curious felicity ' of Horace , and his ...
... Smart's gratuitous footnote to the effect that Stonehenge was the work of giants . ) The Preface touches in disconnected fashion on three topics , and two of these - Smart's remarks on the ' curious felicity ' of Horace , and his ...
Page 182
... Smart loosely , but is a word which seems to draw behind it a complicated metaphor from die - casting , a metaphor which indicates what Smart consceived himself to be doing when he wrote . And yet this meta- phor is not to be found in ...
... Smart loosely , but is a word which seems to draw behind it a complicated metaphor from die - casting , a metaphor which indicates what Smart consceived himself to be doing when he wrote . And yet this meta- phor is not to be found in ...
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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