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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Page 41
... feel those ' soft and sweete airs ' , and he makes us feel his love of them ; but he is also arguing about them , asking and answering questions . He asks whether the spirit in Nature ( or in music ) is felt only by a spiritual sort of ...
... feel those ' soft and sweete airs ' , and he makes us feel his love of them ; but he is also arguing about them , asking and answering questions . He asks whether the spirit in Nature ( or in music ) is felt only by a spiritual sort of ...
Page 135
... feel as it wants to feel . Hence , ever since Le Neveu de Rameau , the Romantic fascination with the hypocrite , the actor , and the double ; and its ever more frantic attempts to surprise itself into feeling what it is not prepared to feel ...
... feel as it wants to feel . Hence , ever since Le Neveu de Rameau , the Romantic fascination with the hypocrite , the actor , and the double ; and its ever more frantic attempts to surprise itself into feeling what it is not prepared to feel ...
Page 256
... feeling as he does ; what he has to do is to feel thus and thus , and trust the feeling . On no other reading is there justification for those lines which seem at first so deplorable : His head he raised - there was in sight , It caught ...
... feeling as he does ; what he has to do is to feel thus and thus , and trust the feeling . On no other reading is there justification for those lines which seem at first so deplorable : His head he raised - there was in sight , It caught ...
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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