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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... learned from the Inferno that the greatest poetry can be written with the greatest economy of words , and with the greatest austerity in the use of metaphor , simile , verbal beauty , and elegance . When I affirm that more can be learned ...
... learned from the Inferno that the greatest poetry can be written with the greatest economy of words , and with the greatest austerity in the use of metaphor , simile , verbal beauty , and elegance . When I affirm that more can be learned ...
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... learned , literary men ; he senses the current modes of writing ; and even though he believes in freedom of language ... the writer is nevertheless tacitly and unconsciously influenced by the accepted conventions of public speech and ...
... learned , literary men ; he senses the current modes of writing ; and even though he believes in freedom of language ... the writer is nevertheless tacitly and unconsciously influenced by the accepted conventions of public speech and ...
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... learned propriety adopts it to designate a principle of physics , upon its root meaning in Latin . ' Gravity ' becomes ' gravitas ' , becomes ' weight ' . And so , once again , a grave thinker becomes a leaden - footed thinker . His ...
... learned propriety adopts it to designate a principle of physics , upon its root meaning in Latin . ' Gravity ' becomes ' gravitas ' , becomes ' weight ' . And so , once again , a grave thinker becomes a leaden - footed thinker . His ...
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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