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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... diction thus jarred upon , we are made unusually aware of how powerfully a sustained generality of diction may work upon us . On the other hand , it is also plain from this example that the symmetry of rhyme ( in Goldsmith , alternately ...
... diction thus jarred upon , we are made unusually aware of how powerfully a sustained generality of diction may work upon us . On the other hand , it is also plain from this example that the symmetry of rhyme ( in Goldsmith , alternately ...
Page 217
... diction no more than a ' certain traditional decorum of language , a necessary convention ( and a necessarily changing one ) about the use of words in poetry ' , 2 will be at a loss to understand how the purity of such a diction can be ...
... diction no more than a ' certain traditional decorum of language , a necessary convention ( and a necessarily changing one ) about the use of words in poetry ' , 2 will be at a loss to understand how the purity of such a diction can be ...
Page 293
... diction has become corrupted . And of course one of the principal ingredients of that diction , even so early as Dryden , was borrowings from the language of Spenser . Still I think it true that the diction of this third stanza is ...
... diction has become corrupted . And of course one of the principal ingredients of that diction , even so early as Dryden , was borrowings from the language of Spenser . Still I think it true that the diction of this third stanza 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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