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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... once more , says of Ocean's Love to Cynthia , ' The chaotic syntax must often be the mark of an unfinished poem . Every reader will find passages where sentences are left hanging in the air , verbs without subjects , subjects without ...
... once more , says of Ocean's Love to Cynthia , ' The chaotic syntax must often be the mark of an unfinished poem . Every reader will find passages where sentences are left hanging in the air , verbs without subjects , subjects without ...
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... once again . At least once more , before he submerged his analsysis in the indul- gent haze of The Deserted Village , Goldsmith restated it . This was in chapter 19 of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ) : ' No , Sir , ' replied I , ' I am ...
... once again . At least once more , before he submerged his analsysis in the indul- gent haze of The Deserted Village , Goldsmith restated it . This was in chapter 19 of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ) : ' No , Sir , ' replied I , ' I am ...
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... once remembered , gives to the phrase the sense not only of guiding along a navigated track , but of teaching wings how to fly . In the same way , the sea- coast is not pathless , but only the coast imagined as duplicated at the ...
... once remembered , gives to the phrase the sense not only of guiding along a navigated track , but of teaching wings how to fly . In the same way , the sea- coast is not pathless , but only the coast imagined as duplicated at the ...
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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