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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... reason had condemned him : Twelve yeares intire I wasted in this warr , Twelve yeares of my most happy younger dayes , Butt I in them and they now wasted ar , Of all which past the sorrow only stayes . So wrate I once , and my mishapp ...
... reason had condemned him : Twelve yeares intire I wasted in this warr , Twelve yeares of my most happy younger dayes , Butt I in them and they now wasted ar , Of all which past the sorrow only stayes . So wrate I once , and my mishapp ...
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... Reason and Religion and Certain Related Open Letters . Edited by Gerald R. Cragg . Oxford : Clarendon Press ; London ... Reason and Religion ( 1743 ) ; the Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion ( 1744-45 ) ; the Letter to the ...
... Reason and Religion and Certain Related Open Letters . Edited by Gerald R. Cragg . Oxford : Clarendon Press ; London ... Reason and Religion ( 1743 ) ; the Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion ( 1744-45 ) ; the Letter to the ...
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... reason , everything wonderful is pleasurable : for example , anything that is infrequent , as well as any representation of things , even of those that are not in themselves pleasant . For the soul delights in comparing one thing with ...
... reason , everything wonderful is pleasurable : for example , anything that is infrequent , as well as any representation of things , even of those that are not in themselves pleasant . For the soul delights in comparing one thing with ...
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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