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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... present weare , ... ? We need not go to the dictionary before we decide that ' distract ' is the precise word : the heart running mad is distracted from the reason that watches ( ' thine own mourning thoughts which present were ...
... present weare , ... ? We need not go to the dictionary before we decide that ' distract ' is the precise word : the heart running mad is distracted from the reason that watches ( ' thine own mourning thoughts which present were ...
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... present in the minds of earnest and dedicated poets of our time ; but present in the way that Dryden and Eliot in their different ways indicate that is to say , as an excellence to be aimed at though never equalled , but never to be ...
... present in the minds of earnest and dedicated poets of our time ; but present in the way that Dryden and Eliot in their different ways indicate that is to say , as an excellence to be aimed at though never equalled , but never to be ...
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... present age those readers who still take pleasure in Paradise Lost sometimes do so by regarding it , not primar- ily as a narrative ( epic or heroic poem ) , but rather as a poetic encyc- lopaedia of arcane knowledge , of ardent and ...
... present age those readers who still take pleasure in Paradise Lost sometimes do so by regarding it , not primar- ily as a narrative ( epic or heroic poem ) , but rather as a poetic encyc- lopaedia of arcane knowledge , of ardent and ...
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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