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 88
... period as in any other and must be watched at least as closely ; above all , that some of these changes have to do with a relation between scientific terminology and com- mon usage . If so , these changes in meaning have everything to ...
... period as in any other and must be watched at least as closely ; above all , that some of these changes have to do with a relation between scientific terminology and com- mon usage . If so , these changes in meaning have everything to ...
Page 89
... period was unusually resourceful , was available only to writ- ers who adopted , consciously or unconsciously , the Lockean or Newtonian ' world - view ' . But this is not so . On the contrary , this range of effects is particu- larly ...
... period was unusually resourceful , was available only to writ- ers who adopted , consciously or unconsciously , the Lockean or Newtonian ' world - view ' . But this is not so . On the contrary , this range of effects is particu- larly ...
Page 107
... period - perhaps in any period - must be referred to the same authority , and handled only by his tools . - 4 As we have seen , the influence of science upon literature in this period is so pervasive and so protean that the only way to ...
... period - perhaps in any period - must be referred to the same authority , and handled only by his tools . - 4 As we have seen , the influence of science upon literature in this period is so pervasive and so protean that the only way to ...
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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