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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... look silly . In fact , this pun or this metaphor ( the device partakes of both ) , strad- dling with one foot in , one out of the laboratory , is a distinctive feature of Augustan writing , in verse and in some sorts of prose ; and it ...
... look silly . In fact , this pun or this metaphor ( the device partakes of both ) , strad- dling with one foot in , one out of the laboratory , is a distinctive feature of Augustan writing , in verse and in some sorts of prose ; and it ...
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... look at , the term and the concept , ' the Enlightenment ' , turn out to be natural and indis- pensable for designating a well - defined phase of that literature , or rather of the whole foreign culture of which the literature is one ...
... look at , the term and the concept , ' the Enlightenment ' , turn out to be natural and indis- pensable for designating a well - defined phase of that literature , or rather of the whole foreign culture of which the literature is one ...
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... look at it , the English eight- eenth century is intriguingly out of step with the rest of Western Europe and the Americas . And yet this is not something that we customarily bear in mind when we examine English literature of that ...
... look at it , the English eight- eenth century is intriguingly out of step with the rest of Western Europe and the Americas . And yet this is not something that we customarily bear in mind when we examine English literature of that ...
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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