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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... instance , could be noble or ignoble , and could have , as plants still have for the herbalist , a specific ' virtue ' . ( Somewhere hereabouts there is the crucial ambiguity of the one English word , ' virtue ' , standing for moral ...
... instance , could be noble or ignoble , and could have , as plants still have for the herbalist , a specific ' virtue ' . ( Somewhere hereabouts there is the crucial ambiguity of the one English word , ' virtue ' , standing for moral ...
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... instance ) . Stephen Hobhouse , for instance , challenging Spurgeon's assertion , declares , of ' spirit ' as used by Newton : The conceptions of aether and of aethereal spirit or spirits as used by Gilbert , Descartes , Boyle and other ...
... instance ) . Stephen Hobhouse , for instance , challenging Spurgeon's assertion , declares , of ' spirit ' as used by Newton : The conceptions of aether and of aethereal spirit or spirits as used by Gilbert , Descartes , Boyle and other ...
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... instance Smart's gratuitous footnote to the effect that Stonehenge was the work of giants . ) The Preface touches in disconnected fashion on three topics , and two of these - Smart's remarks on the ' curious felicity ' of Horace , and ...
... instance Smart's gratuitous footnote to the effect that Stonehenge was the work of giants . ) The Preface touches in disconnected fashion on three topics , and two of these - Smart's remarks on the ' curious felicity ' of Horace , and ...
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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