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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... less tact ) , there have always been . those to admire the way in which - with ' strait ' , rough , dense ' , and ' head , hands , wings ' - Milton crowds stressed syllables together so as to make the vocal exertion in reading image the ...
... less tact ) , there have always been . those to admire the way in which - with ' strait ' , rough , dense ' , and ' head , hands , wings ' - Milton crowds stressed syllables together so as to make the vocal exertion in reading image the ...
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... less metaphors for the Augustans to play with , nor that science and philosophy in their time provided less , or less attractive , metaphors than Eliza- bethan science and philosophy . But the Augustans are more eclectic . They take ...
... less metaphors for the Augustans to play with , nor that science and philosophy in their time provided less , or less attractive , metaphors than Eliza- bethan science and philosophy . But the Augustans are more eclectic . They take ...
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... less mercurial ' , by which we are swayed one way by ' more ignorant ' only to be swayed back by ' less mercu- rial ' , is to produce in us a sort of self - balancing erectness that is rightly taken to be distinctive of eighteenth ...
... less mercurial ' , by which we are swayed one way by ' more ignorant ' only to be swayed back by ' less mercu- rial ' , is to produce in us a sort of self - balancing erectness that is rightly taken to be distinctive of eighteenth ...
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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