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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Page 77
... seen no longer as so many different modes , each with its peculiar pleasure for the discriminating palate , but seen as the poet sees them , pen in hand- as a rich legacy , certainly , but also as a range of treatments no longer ...
... seen no longer as so many different modes , each with its peculiar pleasure for the discriminating palate , but seen as the poet sees them , pen in hand- as a rich legacy , certainly , but also as a range of treatments no longer ...
Page 80
... seen , and no doubt rightly , as producing an atmosphere inimical to poetry . The view of the universe its influence had made the generally accepted one , was that of a mechanism run on mathematical principles and devoid of colour ...
... seen , and no doubt rightly , as producing an atmosphere inimical to poetry . The view of the universe its influence had made the generally accepted one , was that of a mechanism run on mathematical principles and devoid of colour ...
Page 186
... seen , round Britain's peopled shore , Her useful sons exchang'd for useless ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste , Like flaring tapers brightening as they waste ; Seen opulence , her grandeur to maintain , Lead stern ...
... seen , round Britain's peopled shore , Her useful sons exchang'd for useless ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste , Like flaring tapers brightening as they waste ; Seen opulence , her grandeur to maintain , Lead stern ...
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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