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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... matter of literary decorum , but as a matter of doctrine . - In the first place , like many sincere Christians since his own day but like few of his own time , Smart was disturbed and shocked by the barbarous ferocity of many of the ...
... matter of literary decorum , but as a matter of doctrine . - In the first place , like many sincere Christians since his own day but like few of his own time , Smart was disturbed and shocked by the barbarous ferocity of many of the ...
Page 206
... matter , where Ledyard's narrative differs most crucially from all others is in the account he gives ( pp . 136-7 ) of how Cook secured for firewood the fence and idols from the morai , the sacred or ceremonial enclosure . King and ...
... matter , where Ledyard's narrative differs most crucially from all others is in the account he gives ( pp . 136-7 ) of how Cook secured for firewood the fence and idols from the morai , the sacred or ceremonial enclosure . King and ...
Page 217
... matter in itself , capable of no other embellishment than purity of diction , and harmony of ver- sification can give to it . Hic labor , hic opus est . For our language , unless it be very severely chastised , has not the terseness ...
... matter in itself , capable of no other embellishment than purity of diction , and harmony of ver- sification can give to it . Hic labor , hic opus est . For our language , unless it be very severely chastised , has not the terseness ...
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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