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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... least as rapidly in this period as in any other and must be watched at least as closely ; above all , that some of these changes have to do with a relation between scientific terminology and com- mon usage . If so , these changes in ...
... least as rapidly in this period as in any other and must be watched at least as closely ; above all , that some of these changes have to do with a relation between scientific terminology and com- mon usage . If so , these changes in ...
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... least a great deal of very bad weather , it is pos- sible to be all that , and do all that , and yet be rather stupid ; and Cook was by no means stupid . He had , in fact , a first - class brain , a really powerful intellect . He had ...
... least a great deal of very bad weather , it is pos- sible to be all that , and do all that , and yet be rather stupid ; and Cook was by no means stupid . He had , in fact , a first - class brain , a really powerful intellect . He had ...
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... least in such unpractised hands as his . But in any case Ledyard's shrewdness appears in his treatment of the crucial question of Cook's behaviour towards the Hawaiians . On this matter , where Ledyard's narrative differs most crucially ...
... least in such unpractised hands as his . But in any case Ledyard's shrewdness appears in his treatment of the crucial question of Cook's behaviour towards the Hawaiians . On this matter , where Ledyard's narrative differs most crucially ...
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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