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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... metaphors . This is to take the metaphor of ' the body politic ' all too seriously - to the point of forgetting that a metaphor is what it is . Yet for Mandeville in general , as we have seen , this is a dead and discredited metaphor ...
... metaphors . This is to take the metaphor of ' the body politic ' all too seriously - to the point of forgetting that a metaphor is what it is . Yet for Mandeville in general , as we have seen , this is a dead and discredited metaphor ...
Page 113
... metaphor again is the old metaphor of Swift and Berkeley , gone dead in common parlance , into which Burke breathes new life . He remakes the metaphor in a new mould . For the argument of the metaphor in Burke is neither Berkeley's in ...
... metaphor again is the old metaphor of Swift and Berkeley , gone dead in common parlance , into which Burke breathes new life . He remakes the metaphor in a new mould . For the argument of the metaphor in Burke is neither Berkeley's in ...
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... metaphors . He can do so because for him a metaphor is merely a figure of speech , not a figure of thought . Here is certainly a con- traction not in the field of metaphor , but in man's notions of its 1 For the meaning of ' germens ...
... metaphors . He can do so because for him a metaphor is merely a figure of speech , not a figure of thought . Here is certainly a con- traction not in the field of metaphor , but in man's notions of its 1 For the meaning of ' germens ...
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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