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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... follow Dante without talent , you will at worst be pedestrian and flat ; if you follow Shakespeare or Pope without talent , you will make an utter fool of yourself . In fact , Eliot was surely excessive and ungenerous when he declared ...
... follow Dante without talent , you will at worst be pedestrian and flat ; if you follow Shakespeare or Pope without talent , you will make an utter fool of yourself . In fact , Eliot was surely excessive and ungenerous when he declared ...
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... follows ( p.88 ) : It may very well be that many poets [ i.e. of the eighteenth century ] accepted the idea of a ... follow that poetry's needs were similar . This is the extreme conclusion . It is , of course , truer of some poets than ...
... follows ( p.88 ) : It may very well be that many poets [ i.e. of the eighteenth century ] accepted the idea of a ... follow that poetry's needs were similar . This is the extreme conclusion . It is , of course , truer of some poets than ...
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... follow the clue provided by Mallarmé , his reminder that poetry is made not of ideas but of words , we see the ... follows perhaps that the poet is less interested than the prose writer in the ' stability ' of the language he uses ...
... follow the clue provided by Mallarmé , his reminder that poetry is made not of ideas but of words , we see the ... follows perhaps that the poet is less interested than the prose writer in the ' stability ' of the language he uses ...
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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