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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... lines 193-200 , and also 200-212 , being false starts intended for later deletion or else transference elsewhere . There are marks in the manu- script against both these passages , which may be meant to signify this . And yet even here ...
... lines 193-200 , and also 200-212 , being false starts intended for later deletion or else transference elsewhere . There are marks in the manu- script against both these passages , which may be meant to signify this . And yet even here ...
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... lines are end- stopped both ' uproar ' in the first , for instance , and ' shunnd ' in the second , ending a parenthesis with the end of a line - but that where the line is not end - stopped , the swing of the reading eye or voice around ...
... lines are end- stopped both ' uproar ' in the first , for instance , and ' shunnd ' in the second , ending a parenthesis with the end of a line - but that where the line is not end - stopped , the swing of the reading eye or voice around ...
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... lines , when abstracted from them , may be identical with the bearing of some lines in ' Tintern Abbey ' , but these differ from those in being informed with glee , carried on the back of that lunatic elation which Wordsworth was at ...
... lines , when abstracted from them , may be identical with the bearing of some lines in ' Tintern Abbey ' , but these differ from those in being informed with glee , carried on the back of that lunatic elation which Wordsworth was at ...
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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