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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... hand , a plain admission of confusion deserves a helping hand : Phil .... This point I thought had been already determined . Hyl . I own it was ; but you will pardon me if I seem a little embarrassed : I know not how to quit my old ...
... hand , a plain admission of confusion deserves a helping hand : Phil .... This point I thought had been already determined . Hyl . I own it was ; but you will pardon me if I seem a little embarrassed : I know not how to quit my old ...
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... hand shall be those who are shortly to dwell in ' everlasting fire , prepared for the devil and his angels ' . In that number will be all who died in their sins . And among the rest , those whom you preserved from repentance . Will you ...
... hand shall be those who are shortly to dwell in ' everlasting fire , prepared for the devil and his angels ' . In that number will be all who died in their sins . And among the rest , those whom you preserved from repentance . Will you ...
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... hand so far from heightening will tarnish them , on the other hand will seem ungrateful . There are several reasons for calling this refusal to fuss and probe a masculine attitude . For one thing such a casual registering of only the ...
... hand so far from heightening will tarnish them , on the other hand will seem ungrateful . There are several reasons for calling this refusal to fuss and probe a masculine attitude . For one thing such a casual registering of only 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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