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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... come , my Spouse , I come , he crys , With Love and Pleasure in his Eyes . Our Lord into his Garden comes , Well pleas'd to smell our poor Perfumes , And calls us to a Feast divine , Sweeter than Honey , Milk , or Wine . Eat of the Tree ...
... come , my Spouse , I come , he crys , With Love and Pleasure in his Eyes . Our Lord into his Garden comes , Well pleas'd to smell our poor Perfumes , And calls us to a Feast divine , Sweeter than Honey , Milk , or Wine . Eat of the Tree ...
Page 210
... come to share Ledyard's desper- ations , which accordingly validate the fever - pitch which the Ster- nean rhetoric ... comes ( pp . 167-8 ) when Ledyard , at Yakutsk in September 1787 , learns that he has no hope of pressing forward to ...
... come to share Ledyard's desper- ations , which accordingly validate the fever - pitch which the Ster- nean rhetoric ... comes ( pp . 167-8 ) when Ledyard , at Yakutsk in September 1787 , learns that he has no hope of pressing forward to ...
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... comes conveniently to remind us that The Lay for all its loving re - creation of the conventions of late medieval romance , is by no means a simple pastiche , however expert , like some of Scott's art - ballads . The distinction of the ...
... comes conveniently to remind us that The Lay for all its loving re - creation of the conventions of late medieval romance , is by no means a simple pastiche , however expert , like some of Scott's art - ballads . The distinction 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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