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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... admired paintings by Titian , Guido Reni , Correggio , and others , is merely an extreme case . Only a trained habit of visualizing on the part of the reader , along with an admiration for paintings and statuary significantly different ...
... admired paintings by Titian , Guido Reni , Correggio , and others , is merely an extreme case . Only a trained habit of visualizing on the part of the reader , along with an admiration for paintings and statuary significantly different ...
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... admired in Pope , will account my translation in those particulars defective . But I comfort myself with the thought , that in reality it is no defect , on the contrary that the want of all such embellish- ments as do not belong to the ...
... admired in Pope , will account my translation in those particulars defective . But I comfort myself with the thought , that in reality it is no defect , on the contrary that the want of all such embellish- ments as do not belong to the ...
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... admiration , which attends public offices , whether they are conferred by the favor of a prince , derived from ... admired ( though not uncritically ) . Johnson had written , in his review of Soame Jenyns's Free Enquiry , of ' the ...
... admiration , which attends public offices , whether they are conferred by the favor of a prince , derived from ... admired ( though not uncritically ) . Johnson had written , in his review of Soame Jenyns's Free Enquiry , of ' the ...
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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