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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... courses were open – to use the dialogue as an image of what should be , or of what was . Berkeley followed the first course in Three Dialogues ; the second in Alciphron . - The second course was perhaps easier than the first . But it ...
... courses were open – to use the dialogue as an image of what should be , or of what was . Berkeley followed the first course in Three Dialogues ; the second in Alciphron . - The second course was perhaps easier than the first . But it ...
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... course ! Spring in midwinter is unnatural . How can it not be , since it is supernatural ? The language is artificial ? But of course ! It is speaking of a divine artifice disrupting the natural order . - The whole conceit and paradox ...
... course ! Spring in midwinter is unnatural . How can it not be , since it is supernatural ? The language is artificial ? But of course ! It is speaking of a divine artifice disrupting the natural order . - The whole conceit and paradox ...
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... course ) ' But for her eyes I should have fled away ' . Where the form is so thoroughly achieved , as much in alert metre as in diction , it is proper to take the content seriously ; and Barnard is right to stress how the poem is ...
... course ) ' But for her eyes I should have fled away ' . Where the form is so thoroughly achieved , as much in alert metre as in diction , it is proper to take the content seriously ; and Barnard is right to stress how the poem is ...
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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