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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... reader will know , from personal experience or else from sympathy with others , those hours in which the dedicated life asks itself if the game is worth the candle , decides that it isn't , and then with bewilderment finds that it will ...
... reader will know , from personal experience or else from sympathy with others , those hours in which the dedicated life asks itself if the game is worth the candle , decides that it isn't , and then with bewilderment finds that it will ...
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... reader are so many affected graces , designed to draw the attention from the subject towards himself , and make it ... reader , who on the contrary by these means is continually wrong - footed . The dialogue , Shaftesbury goes on to say ...
... reader are so many affected graces , designed to draw the attention from the subject towards himself , and make it ... reader , who on the contrary by these means is continually wrong - footed . The dialogue , Shaftesbury goes on to say ...
Page 226
... reader to the next . Thus ' a sneaky wind ' and ' inclement weather ' will be experienced by one reader as equally personifications , whereas to another reader less apt at construing Latinisms the first expression will seem to involve ...
... reader to the next . Thus ' a sneaky wind ' and ' inclement weather ' will be experienced by one reader as equally personifications , whereas to another reader less apt at construing Latinisms the first expression will seem to involve ...
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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