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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... contrary , Howard Erskine - Hill's gallery is assembled with great imagination , and very sensitively arranged : two peers of the realm , one Catholic , the other Protestant ; three self - made men ( Walter , Blunt , and Allen ) ; and ...
... contrary , Howard Erskine - Hill's gallery is assembled with great imagination , and very sensitively arranged : two peers of the realm , one Catholic , the other Protestant ; three self - made men ( Walter , Blunt , and Allen ) ; and ...
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... contrary , what we call ' objects ' are psychologically abstractions from experiences ( E ) . ) The implications of this are explosive indeed . In a tediously famous programmatic poem , ' The Red Wheelbarrow ' , William Carlos Williams ...
... contrary , what we call ' objects ' are psychologically abstractions from experiences ( E ) . ) The implications of this are explosive indeed . In a tediously famous programmatic poem , ' The Red Wheelbarrow ' , William Carlos Williams ...
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... contrary is the aftermath and proof of very strong and tumultuous feeling . This is what I have always believed , not on the authority of Landor or any one else ( for instance not Yeats nor Pound , who can both be shown to have endorsed ...
... contrary is the aftermath and proof of very strong and tumultuous feeling . This is what I have always believed , not on the authority of Landor or any one else ( for instance not Yeats nor Pound , who can both be shown to have endorsed ...
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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