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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... body , of the wintry earth , and of the waterwheel , are presented as it were in parallel , each paralleling both ... body is brutal ; the lamb has life before it , the corpse has life behind it ; and the images are ranged on a scale ...
... body , of the wintry earth , and of the waterwheel , are presented as it were in parallel , each paralleling both ... body is brutal ; the lamb has life before it , the corpse has life behind it ; and the images are ranged on a scale ...
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... body not as just a manner of speaking , nor even as a manner of thinking , but as a provable fact , on which arguments may be based . If we ask how the eighteenth century used these metaphors , we should by now be prepared for the ...
... body not as just a manner of speaking , nor even as a manner of thinking , but as a provable fact , on which arguments may be based . If we ask how the eighteenth century used these metaphors , we should by now be prepared for the ...
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... Body as well as the Temperament of the Natural ... ' Here Mandeville can adapt or translate into his own materialistic terms a metaphor even more ancient in political thought than that of ' the body politic ' - the image of the Wheel of ...
... Body as well as the Temperament of the Natural ... ' Here Mandeville can adapt or translate into his own materialistic terms a metaphor even more ancient in political thought than that of ' the body politic ' - the image of the Wheel of ...
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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