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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... distinction of this passage , in all which concerns the manipulation of syntax ( and the syntax is profoundly important ) is thoroughly a narrative distinction . The language is deployed , just as the episodes are in a story , so as ...
... distinction of this passage , in all which concerns the manipulation of syntax ( and the syntax is profoundly important ) is thoroughly a narrative distinction . The language is deployed , just as the episodes are in a story , so as ...
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... distinction elaborated on , a powerful suspense would have been built up . Instead the narrative run is halted while the distinction is laboriously made in a parenthesis which has all the distracting inertness of a footnote . It's ...
... distinction elaborated on , a powerful suspense would have been built up . Instead the narrative run is halted while the distinction is laboriously made in a parenthesis which has all the distracting inertness of a footnote . It's ...
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... distinction between ' spirituous ' and ' spiritual ' was unthinkable for the eight- eenth century , as this passage of Mandeville shows . It is a distinction . - not a very efficient one - designed to cope with the awkwardness of using ...
... distinction between ' spirituous ' and ' spiritual ' was unthinkable for the eight- eenth century , as this passage of Mandeville shows . It is a distinction . - not a very efficient one - designed to cope with the awkwardness of using ...
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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