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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... ideas about ' whether intentional or not ' ) . And he will be grateful to have his attention returned to the astonishing ... idea expressed or hinted at in " Do then by dying what life cannot do ” . But what will our reader make of the ...
... ideas about ' whether intentional or not ' ) . And he will be grateful to have his attention returned to the astonishing ... idea expressed or hinted at in " Do then by dying what life cannot do ” . But what will our reader make of the ...
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... idea of ' elevation ' , arguing that since it's good for an author to have elevated thoughts and style , it is to his advantage to live in a garret , at the top of a house . But the centrally important point remains ; that the new ...
... idea of ' elevation ' , arguing that since it's good for an author to have elevated thoughts and style , it is to his advantage to live in a garret , at the top of a house . But the centrally important point remains ; that the new ...
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... idea which now seems so undeniably quaint - the idea that T.S. Eliot wrote an anti - Romantic poetry , rather than poetry which is the product of what is in important ways a late - Romantic sensibility ( as it could not help but be ...
... idea which now seems so undeniably quaint - the idea that T.S. Eliot wrote an anti - Romantic poetry , rather than poetry which is the product of what is in important ways a late - Romantic sensibility ( as it could not help but be ...
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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