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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... Style ' allows us to define more exactly what the Augus- tan myth was for eighteenth - century England , at the point where it informed poetic diction and style : There is a kind of lyric poetry ... which , like epic poetry , tends to ...
... Style ' allows us to define more exactly what the Augus- tan myth was for eighteenth - century England , at the point where it informed poetic diction and style : There is a kind of lyric poetry ... which , like epic poetry , tends to ...
Page 149
... style according as he essayed each of the traditional poetic kinds , even to the desperate expedient of using the heroic style for mock- heroic poems because only mock - heroic subjects seemed to present themselves ; and this means that ...
... style according as he essayed each of the traditional poetic kinds , even to the desperate expedient of using the heroic style for mock- heroic poems because only mock - heroic subjects seemed to present themselves ; and this means that ...
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... style ' , he might here have fallen into that mawkishness from which in general his lofty tone and style rescued him even when he was dealing in effects of piercing simpli- city . This is not so , however . In the first place , though ...
... style ' , he might here have fallen into that mawkishness from which in general his lofty tone and style rescued him even when he was dealing in effects of piercing simpli- city . This is not so , however . In the first place , though ...
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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