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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... effect . One wants instead to speak of ' muscularity ' , using ' muscular ' , however , in a special sense , dif- ferent from ( because more literal than ) the sense in which we can justly speak of other poetry as ' muscular ' . The effect ...
... effect . One wants instead to speak of ' muscularity ' , using ' muscular ' , however , in a special sense , dif- ferent from ( because more literal than ) the sense in which we can justly speak of other poetry as ' muscular ' . The effect ...
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... effects as those of the invocation to Light . What is surprising is that these effects are rather the exception than the rule . Neither kinetic and dramatic effect , as in the lines on Satan's fall , nor narrative and musical effect ...
... effects as those of the invocation to Light . What is surprising is that these effects are rather the exception than the rule . Neither kinetic and dramatic effect , as in the lines on Satan's fall , nor narrative and musical effect ...
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... effect on the heart . ' And this may serve to show the connection between Aristotle on this point and Longinus , whose treatise on the elevated style , On the Sublime , is centrally concerned with the rhetorical concept of admiratio ...
... effect on the heart . ' And this may serve to show the connection between Aristotle on this point and Longinus , whose treatise on the elevated style , On the Sublime , is centrally concerned with the rhetorical concept of admiratio ...
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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