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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... principle from which had come the very vocabulary he objected to . ) The second feature of eighteenth - century diction which enforces the point is the periphrasis - locutions like ' bearded product ' for ' corn ' , ' loquacious race ...
... principle from which had come the very vocabulary he objected to . ) The second feature of eighteenth - century diction which enforces the point is the periphrasis - locutions like ' bearded product ' for ' corn ' , ' loquacious race ...
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... principle of ' impres- sion ' was for Smart an important one , a constantly guiding principle as one sees from Rejoice in the Lamb several years before : ' For my talent is to give an impression upon words by punching , that when the ...
... principle of ' impres- sion ' was for Smart an important one , a constantly guiding principle as one sees from Rejoice in the Lamb several years before : ' For my talent is to give an impression upon words by punching , that when the ...
Page 279
... principle of poetic ordering - as it does once again in some modern vers - libre . By Scott , of course , it is used ... principle . And so the distinction of this passage about the battlefield is the same in principle as that of the ...
... principle of poetic ordering - as it does once again in some modern vers - libre . By Scott , of course , it is used ... principle . And so the distinction of this passage about the battlefield is the same in principle as that of the ...
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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