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 89
... philosopher chosen to represent his kind in the Dictionary . ' Berkeley , for instance , had challenged the Lockean system ; but Johnson , it seems , chose to ignore the challenge . This goes along with Johnson's known dislike of ...
... philosopher chosen to represent his kind in the Dictionary . ' Berkeley , for instance , had challenged the Lockean system ; but Johnson , it seems , chose to ignore the challenge . This goes along with Johnson's known dislike of ...
Page 128
... philosopher accords a powerful dignitary , Shaftesbury observes : Whilst I am copying this ... I see a thousand ridicules arising from the manner , the circumstances and action itself , compared with modern breeding and civility . - Let ...
... philosopher accords a powerful dignitary , Shaftesbury observes : Whilst I am copying this ... I see a thousand ridicules arising from the manner , the circumstances and action itself , compared with modern breeding and civility . - Let ...
Page 133
... philosopher , one of the fathers of subjective idealism ; and Yeats became interested in him at just about the time when Berkeleyans began to challenge this reading of him , and to take seriously his own claim to be a philosopher of ...
... philosopher , one of the fathers of subjective idealism ; and Yeats became interested in him at just about the time when Berkeleyans began to challenge this reading of him , and to take seriously his own claim to be a philosopher of ...
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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