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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... poet is his own language ... ' . If Ben Jonson is a great poet ( and I am sure he is ) , he seems to me an exception to Eliot's rule ; in the present century as in the seventeenth century , poets who are prepared to take the very ...
... poet is his own language ... ' . If Ben Jonson is a great poet ( and I am sure he is ) , he seems to me an exception to Eliot's rule ; in the present century as in the seventeenth century , poets who are prepared to take the very ...
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... poet who moved into that charged area , and sur- vived ( though somewhat mutilated in the process ) , was George Meredith in Modern Love . But surely what we first have in mind when we say ' Shakespeare ' is the blank - verse spoken by ...
... poet who moved into that charged area , and sur- vived ( though somewhat mutilated in the process ) , was George Meredith in Modern Love . But surely what we first have in mind when we say ' Shakespeare ' is the blank - verse spoken by ...
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... poet will be able to take his procedure as a model . One sort of poet works his way to God by learning the lessons of experience , drawing conclusions from it , and so coming upon the moral laws behind it . Another sort of poet leaps up ...
... poet will be able to take his procedure as a model . One sort of poet works his way to God by learning the lessons of experience , drawing conclusions from it , and so coming upon the moral laws behind it . Another sort of poet leaps up ...
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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