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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... seems to say that Ralegh and Spenser , each with a poem in honour of the Queen , went to court together from Ireland . Spenser got little out of it and returned to Ireland ; but the trick worked for Ralegh and he was back in high favour ...
... seems to say that Ralegh and Spenser , each with a poem in honour of the Queen , went to court together from Ireland . Spenser got little out of it and returned to Ireland ; but the trick worked for Ralegh and he was back in high favour ...
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... seems to see it , not as in reality it most commonly appears , as an aimless toying and fussing , but as a state of ... seems to say : ' Yes , death is a state of permanent glee . And death therefore is good . ' And he says the same ...
... seems to see it , not as in reality it most commonly appears , as an aimless toying and fussing , but as a state of ... seems to say : ' Yes , death is a state of permanent glee . And death therefore is good . ' And he says the same ...
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... seems forgotten ; one to whom Long patience hath such mild composure given , That patience now doth seem a thing of which He hath no need.1 Michael at the unfinished sheepfold is , in fact , another instance of animal tranquillity ...
... seems forgotten ; one to whom Long patience hath such mild composure given , That patience now doth seem a thing of which He hath no need.1 Michael at the unfinished sheepfold is , in fact , another instance of animal tranquillity ...
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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