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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... force his way to the top by sheer force of personality . And so we may imagine him as a go - getter , a man on the make , a thruster . Everything depended on his pleasing two capricious monarchs . His life and most of his poetry are ...
... force his way to the top by sheer force of personality . And so we may imagine him as a go - getter , a man on the make , a thruster . Everything depended on his pleasing two capricious monarchs . His life and most of his poetry are ...
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... force of learned Latinate puns , though they would not have had that force for Donne's first readers . On the other hand , ' cordial ' retains , for us , both its senses , and , as a noun , refers to a medicine having certain properties ...
... force of learned Latinate puns , though they would not have had that force for Donne's first readers . On the other hand , ' cordial ' retains , for us , both its senses , and , as a noun , refers to a medicine having certain properties ...
Page 104
... force at all ; so he has it both ways . And so he is able to move at once to ' forms , souls , or principles ' ( with no disclaimer this time ) , to ens primum or scintilla spirituosa . By this time , the spirit of vegetables is for the ...
... force at all ; so he has it both ways . And so he is able to move at once to ' forms , souls , or principles ' ( with no disclaimer this time ) , to ens primum or scintilla spirituosa . By this time , the spirit of vegetables is for 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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