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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... stands , since this is all of the poem there is . He may well protest that neither he nor anyone else can be asked ... stand as finished and be judged as such . And from this position ( which strikes me as impregnable ) he may choose ...
... stands , since this is all of the poem there is . He may well protest that neither he nor anyone else can be asked ... stand as finished and be judged as such . And from this position ( which strikes me as impregnable ) he may choose ...
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... stand out in clean unfettered lines , by clean- ing her of individual accidents and generalizing the instance , while others , notably Neander - Dryden himself , suppose it to mean pre- serving as many as possible of such accidents , by ...
... stand out in clean unfettered lines , by clean- ing her of individual accidents and generalizing the instance , while others , notably Neander - Dryden himself , suppose it to mean pre- serving as many as possible of such accidents , by ...
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... stand ' and ' settle ' ) . And finally comes the old joke of the bathos ( ' where heavy Heads are lowest ' ) . By implication ( since Lysi- cles is a fool ) there is present another , Burkean image of the State as something which , if ...
... stand ' and ' settle ' ) . And finally comes the old joke of the bathos ( ' where heavy Heads are lowest ' ) . By implication ( since Lysi- cles is a fool ) there is present another , Burkean image of the State as something which , if ...
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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