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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... passage after passage , ' he deplored the vicious taste of his time for a cloying smoothness in cadence , and insisted on a certain roughness in metre , a redundant syllable or a reversed foot . So , although no poet ( not even Hopkins ) ...
... passage after passage , ' he deplored the vicious taste of his time for a cloying smoothness in cadence , and insisted on a certain roughness in metre , a redundant syllable or a reversed foot . So , although no poet ( not even Hopkins ) ...
Page 236
... passage which , as Haraszti shows , has a parallel on the first page of Smith's Chapter . But it soon changes . One may usefully compare a passage about the poor man in Adams ( a passage , incidentally , which is much wrenched by Hannah ...
... passage which , as Haraszti shows , has a parallel on the first page of Smith's Chapter . But it soon changes . One may usefully compare a passage about the poor man in Adams ( a passage , incidentally , which is much wrenched by Hannah ...
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... passage in question , the account of Fitz - James's ride : Along thy banks , swift Teith ! they ride , And in the race they mock'd their tide ; Torry and Lendrick now are past , And Deanstown lies behind them cast : They rise , the ...
... passage in question , the account of Fitz - James's ride : Along thy banks , swift Teith ! they ride , And in the race they mock'd their tide ; Torry and Lendrick now are past , And Deanstown lies behind them cast : They rise , 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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