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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... language . The lan- guage of each great English poet is his own language ; the language of Dante is the perfection of a common language . In a sense , it is more pedestrian than that of Dryden or Pope . If you follow Dante without ...
... language . The lan- guage of each great English poet is his own language ; the language of Dante is the perfection of a common language . In a sense , it is more pedestrian than that of Dryden or Pope . If you follow Dante without ...
Page 95
... language of his own time and earlier , looking for words which are arresting and suggestive , or for words , dry and inconspicuous in common usage or in the place where he finds them ... Language of Science and the Language of Literature 95.
... language of his own time and earlier , looking for words which are arresting and suggestive , or for words , dry and inconspicuous in common usage or in the place where he finds them ... Language of Science and the Language of Literature 95.
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... language for some of the novel words he would have excluded . In his Pelican book , Our Language , Simeon Potter remarks ' All those complex changes and developments , all those adoptions and adapta- tions which had contributed to the ...
... language for some of the novel words he would have excluded . In his Pelican book , Our Language , Simeon Potter remarks ' All those complex changes and developments , all those adoptions and adapta- tions which had contributed to 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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