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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... mind and a quick one , but the chastening comedy of how the human mind will twist and turn ( unconsciously ) to evade unpalatable con- clusions , to cling to what is familiar . The candour comes with the realization by both speakers ...
... mind and a quick one , but the chastening comedy of how the human mind will twist and turn ( unconsciously ) to evade unpalatable con- clusions , to cling to what is familiar . The candour comes with the realization by both speakers ...
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... mind , no less certainly comes from a mind that is seriously disoriented - a mind which , to say the least , has lost its sense of proportion . ( See for instance Smart's gratuitous footnote to the effect that Stonehenge was the work of ...
... mind , no less certainly comes from a mind that is seriously disoriented - a mind which , to say the least , has lost its sense of proportion . ( See for instance Smart's gratuitous footnote to the effect that Stonehenge was the work of ...
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... mind perceived it . In his letter he takes the further step of speculating why , if the movements of the mind can thus annihilate whatever is out of mind , the movements of the body ( from England to Germany , for instance ) should not ...
... mind perceived it . In his letter he takes the further step of speculating why , if the movements of the mind can thus annihilate whatever is out of mind , the movements of the body ( from England to Germany , for instance ) should not ...
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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