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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... dialogue . For this is Shaftesbury's own experiment in the manner of dialogue which elsewhere in the Characteristics he has recommended as a philosophical and literary form , a recommendation which he here repeats . As the sub - title ...
... dialogue . For this is Shaftesbury's own experiment in the manner of dialogue which elsewhere in the Characteristics he has recommended as a philosophical and literary form , a recommendation which he here repeats . As the sub - title ...
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... dialogue could be written only by swimming against the current , by taking few hints from the actual conduct of conver- sations and disputations and many more from the sense of how they should have been conducted . Accordingly ...
... dialogue could be written only by swimming against the current , by taking few hints from the actual conduct of conver- sations and disputations and many more from the sense of how they should have been conducted . Accordingly ...
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... dialogues his Antonio is far more of a man of straw , far less credible , than either Lysicles and Alciphron . Mandeville seems to have grown tired of the dialogue form as he proceeded with it , for the character of Antonio as sketched ...
... dialogues his Antonio is far more of a man of straw , far less credible , than either Lysicles and Alciphron . Mandeville seems to have grown tired of the dialogue form as he proceeded with it , for the character of Antonio as sketched ...
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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