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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... later working - over . Yet if we point this out to a modern reader , as Edwards does , he can still impenitently retreat to that metaphysical hinterland of criti- cism where roam those fabulous beasts , the intentional and the affec ...
... later working - over . Yet if we point this out to a modern reader , as Edwards does , he can still impenitently retreat to that metaphysical hinterland of criti- cism where roam those fabulous beasts , the intentional and the affec ...
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... later he left without taking a degree . There is some evidence that later he travelled on the continent in the diplomatic service , but all we can be sure of is that he was twice elected member of parliament for Helston , and that in ...
... later he left without taking a degree . There is some evidence that later he travelled on the continent in the diplomatic service , but all we can be sure of is that he was twice elected member of parliament for Helston , and that in ...
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... later sections of that manuscript ; for its place had been taken by the work on the Psalms , to which Smart refers excitedly in the later parts of the other poem . Moreover , since Smart set about as soon as he was released to solicit ...
... later sections of that manuscript ; for its place had been taken by the work on the Psalms , to which Smart refers excitedly in the later parts of the other poem . Moreover , since Smart set about as soon as he was released to solicit ...
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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