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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Page 204
... perhaps the resolution also , are just what students like Alan Villiers will deny . And although this is not the place to attempt a full - scale vindication of Ledyard's treat- ment of Cook , I must digress far enough to touch on the ...
... perhaps the resolution also , are just what students like Alan Villiers will deny . And although this is not the place to attempt a full - scale vindication of Ledyard's treat- ment of Cook , I must digress far enough to touch on the ...
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... perhaps ; ' mere Humanity calls upon us to ... ' do something , perhaps refuse to buy South African oranges . In sentences like these , an abstract quality , ' Justice ' or ' Humanity ' , is made to ' demand ' or to ' call upon ' us to ...
... perhaps ; ' mere Humanity calls upon us to ... ' do something , perhaps refuse to buy South African oranges . In sentences like these , an abstract quality , ' Justice ' or ' Humanity ' , is made to ' demand ' or to ' call upon ' us to ...
Page 257
... perhaps for us , can be brought home if we see it in the context of the cult of sensibility in the late eighteenth century , and the special sort of sentimentality it produced . One most marked feature of that cult , perhaps the central ...
... perhaps for us , can be brought home if we see it in the context of the cult of sensibility in the late eighteenth century , and the special sort of sentimentality it produced . One most marked feature of that cult , perhaps the central ...
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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