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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Page 10
... criticism of life that we think of as the typical poetic function . ' But of course Kenner's cross - reference to Blake's ' wiry bounding line ' suggests precisely a ' criticism of life ' , one that Blake and Pound and Arnaut concur in ...
... criticism of life that we think of as the typical poetic function . ' But of course Kenner's cross - reference to Blake's ' wiry bounding line ' suggests precisely a ' criticism of life ' , one that Blake and Pound and Arnaut concur in ...
Page 71
... criticism , not criticism at all , is not to deny , of course , that great criticism is to be found in it . There is , for instance , the examen of The Silent Woman , still an excellent introduction to a neglected play ; there are the ...
... criticism , not criticism at all , is not to deny , of course , that great criticism is to be found in it . There is , for instance , the examen of The Silent Woman , still an excellent introduction to a neglected play ; there are the ...
Page 181
... critic is com- menting on some lines from ( again ) Homer , and on lines moreover which , like the lines in Smart's example , describe a storm at sea ... criticism suggests quite precisely , as Christopher Smart : Some Neglected Poems 181.
... critic is com- menting on some lines from ( again ) Homer , and on lines moreover which , like the lines in Smart's example , describe a storm at sea ... criticism suggests quite precisely , as Christopher Smart : Some Neglected Poems 181.
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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