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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... experience ; it does not rule and direct the poem from the outset . And the experience in Horace is surprising and furnishes the fulcrum on which the poem turns.1 Cunningham's point is that in Marvell's poem the experience is not ...
... experience ; it does not rule and direct the poem from the outset . And the experience in Horace is surprising and furnishes the fulcrum on which the poem turns.1 Cunningham's point is that in Marvell's poem the experience is not ...
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... experience at all ; an unremitting barrage of unrelated particular experiences would simply overmaster us . Thus ... experience ( E ) or a group of individual experiences ( E ) , a non- abstract or a concrete term would be the sign of ...
... experience at all ; an unremitting barrage of unrelated particular experiences would simply overmaster us . Thus ... experience ( E ) or a group of individual experiences ( E ) , a non- abstract or a concrete term would be the sign of ...
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... experience , for ' floating ' does not adequately represent the experience of seeing a bird in flight ; it is as vague as ' figure ' . Still less , on the other hand , does it appeal to a known fact , belying experience , about the ...
... experience , for ' floating ' does not adequately represent the experience of seeing a bird in flight ; it is as vague as ' figure ' . Still less , on the other hand , does it appeal to a known fact , belying experience , about the ...
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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