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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... figure of speech , not a figure of thought . Here is certainly a con- traction not in the field of metaphor , but in man's notions of its 1 For the meaning of ' germens ' see Walter C. Curry , Shakespeare's Philosophical Patterns ...
... figure of speech , not a figure of thought . Here is certainly a con- traction not in the field of metaphor , but in man's notions of its 1 For the meaning of ' germens ' see Walter C. Curry , Shakespeare's Philosophical Patterns ...
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... figure ' . But Bateson's treatment of it goes all the other way , towards recognizing that on the contrary personifi- cation is inherent in the very grammatical structure of our language , hence that we ' personify ' when we're not ...
... figure ' . But Bateson's treatment of it goes all the other way , towards recognizing that on the contrary personifi- cation is inherent in the very grammatical structure of our language , hence that we ' personify ' when we're not ...
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... figure floats along ' is perhaps unacceptable on any terms . ' Falling dew ' may be called artificial , in the sense that it does not appeal to sense - experience ( no one sees the dew falling ) but to deductions from that experience ...
... figure floats along ' is perhaps unacceptable on any terms . ' Falling dew ' may be called artificial , in the sense that it does not appeal to sense - experience ( no one sees the dew falling ) but to deductions from that experience ...
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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