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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... Nature ' . The first , which gives Crites and Lisideius their backing , is that Nature teaches restraint , preciseness , that the artist must imitate the generality of Nature , that is to say , he must present aspects which represent ...
... Nature ' . The first , which gives Crites and Lisideius their backing , is that Nature teaches restraint , preciseness , that the artist must imitate the generality of Nature , that is to say , he must present aspects which represent ...
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... nature is a part of ' Nature ' , and indeed a specially important part , since man has potentialities , for good and evil , beyond any other creature ; it follows that man is following nature most faithfully , and revering her most ...
... nature is a part of ' Nature ' , and indeed a specially important part , since man has potentialities , for good and evil , beyond any other creature ; it follows that man is following nature most faithfully , and revering her most ...
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... nature have united ' . And this is characteristic . Although it seems to be true that for Adams ' nature ' as a providentially ordained order is less tightly organized than for Jefferson , ' still he shares with him the conviction that ...
... nature have united ' . And this is characteristic . Although it seems to be true that for Adams ' nature ' as a providentially ordained order is less tightly organized than for Jefferson , ' still he shares with him the conviction 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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