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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... society at large , and exult in it . To most of us I think it is a fairly constant source of distress and depression ; something we would like to deny , but cannot , because hour by hour we have evidence that all the pressures of our ...
... society at large , and exult in it . To most of us I think it is a fairly constant source of distress and depression ; something we would like to deny , but cannot , because hour by hour we have evidence that all the pressures of our ...
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... society and its usages , but that it is addressed to society , or rather to some identifiable group within society . And this , which is plainly not true of Taylor's poetry , seems to be equally untrue of many American poets since ...
... society and its usages , but that it is addressed to society , or rather to some identifiable group within society . And this , which is plainly not true of Taylor's poetry , seems to be equally untrue of many American poets since ...
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... society , when we want to ask , ' Do they conceive of society organically or mechani- cally ? ' the writers can only reply with perfect consistency that since for them the organic is mechanical , they never regard society as an organism ...
... society , when we want to ask , ' Do they conceive of society organically or mechani- cally ? ' the writers can only reply with perfect consistency that since for them the organic is mechanical , they never regard society as an organism ...
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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