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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... better by attempting to emulate Ben Jonson . Eliot himself rather plainly did not put himself to school to Jonson ; and some have thought that he would have been a better poet if he had , as both Yeats and Pound did . It has been ...
... better by attempting to emulate Ben Jonson . Eliot himself rather plainly did not put himself to school to Jonson ; and some have thought that he would have been a better poet if he had , as both Yeats and Pound did . It has been ...
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... better to withdraw into the period I defined . This , then , is from Berkeley again - not from the elated and innocent Berkeley of Siris , but from Alciphron , his dialogues of 1732 : The Wheels of Government go on , though wound up by ...
... better to withdraw into the period I defined . This , then , is from Berkeley again - not from the elated and innocent Berkeley of Siris , but from Alciphron , his dialogues of 1732 : The Wheels of Government go on , though wound up by ...
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... better to have them in the same house with us , or in the same village , or still farther off , in the metropolis . Now , Sir , for my own part , as I naturally hate the face of a tyrant , the farther off he is removed from me , the better ...
... better to have them in the same house with us , or in the same village , or still farther off , in the metropolis . Now , Sir , for my own part , as I naturally hate the face of a tyrant , the farther off he is removed from me , the better ...
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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