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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... believe I am in the majority among serious poets in feeling alienated from the theatre , seldom visiting it , and certainly with no interest in adapting my own writing to theatrical occasions . For this development , if indeed it exists ...
... believe I am in the majority among serious poets in feeling alienated from the theatre , seldom visiting it , and certainly with no interest in adapting my own writing to theatrical occasions . For this development , if indeed it exists ...
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... believe in this complicated clas- sification , his talk of ' fluids ' and ' spirits ' shows him still thinking in Elizabethan terms . And indeed his contemporary John Locke still speaks of ' the animal spirits ' quite unmetaphorically ...
... believe in this complicated clas- sification , his talk of ' fluids ' and ' spirits ' shows him still thinking in Elizabethan terms . And indeed his contemporary John Locke still speaks of ' the animal spirits ' quite unmetaphorically ...
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... believe this if we hold it as an act of faith that muddle is worse than clarity . ( Not all poets and readers of poetry do hold this some will explicitly prefer a warm damp muddle to a hard dry clarity ; and to them I have nothing to ...
... believe this if we hold it as an act of faith that muddle is worse than clarity . ( Not all poets and readers of poetry do hold this some will explicitly prefer a warm damp muddle to a hard dry clarity ; and to them I have nothing to ...
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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