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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... Taylor not in isolation but in company with his British contemporary , Isaac Watts . My intention is not in the least to minimize Taylor's American - ness ; on the contrary I hope to emphasize it and define it , by showing how different ...
... Taylor not in isolation but in company with his British contemporary , Isaac Watts . My intention is not in the least to minimize Taylor's American - ness ; on the contrary I hope to emphasize it and define it , by showing how different ...
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... Taylor ) would have teased out and made salient , which Watts on the contrary subdues and submerges , particularly by the smooth firmness of his metre . The same wit , deliberately subdued in the same way , is to be found in Watts's ...
... Taylor ) would have teased out and made salient , which Watts on the contrary subdues and submerges , particularly by the smooth firmness of his metre . The same wit , deliberately subdued in the same way , is to be found in Watts's ...
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... Taylor's relations with his fellows were , in the Westfield church , and whether indeed there was anyone there whom he would recognize as ' a fellow ' . One recalls him writing to Samuel Sewall in 1696 about ' the Foggy damps assaulting ...
... Taylor's relations with his fellows were , in the Westfield church , and whether indeed there was anyone there whom he would recognize as ' a fellow ' . One recalls him writing to Samuel Sewall in 1696 about ' the Foggy damps assaulting ...
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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