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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... literary history but literary criticism involves us in the labours . of the historian and the biographer , and not solely or chiefly with printed sources . How to do the grubbing while not losing sight of what the grubbing is for ( that ...
... literary history but literary criticism involves us in the labours . of the historian and the biographer , and not solely or chiefly with printed sources . How to do the grubbing while not losing sight of what the grubbing is for ( that ...
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... literary historian and literary critic , what has always weighed more with me is the encouragement that I got from him when I was a beginning poet . And there are other poets among my contemporaries who would say the same . Indeed it ...
... literary historian and literary critic , what has always weighed more with me is the encouragement that I got from him when I was a beginning poet . And there are other poets among my contemporaries who would say the same . Indeed it ...
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... literary sentiment and opinion . For an instance , I will go to so good and independent a critic as Herb Schniedau : ' Only in the post - Romantic era is it neces- sary , with Ruskin , to disown the pathetic fallacy ... " But of course ...
... literary sentiment and opinion . For an instance , I will go to so good and independent a critic as Herb Schniedau : ' Only in the post - Romantic era is it neces- sary , with Ruskin , to disown the pathetic fallacy ... " But of course ...
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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