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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... surely was , despite occasional five - line stanzas , tercets , and unat- tached couplets like this one ) there can be no doubt that this repre- sents a place where Ralegh knows that smoothing out will be called for . But this is not to ...
... surely was , despite occasional five - line stanzas , tercets , and unat- tached couplets like this one ) there can be no doubt that this repre- sents a place where Ralegh knows that smoothing out will be called for . But this is not to ...
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... surely open to several objections , begs a lot of questions . In the first place it requires us to think in terms of what might have been . It assumes that we are somehow dissatisfied with what poetry we have from this period ; for such ...
... surely open to several objections , begs a lot of questions . In the first place it requires us to think in terms of what might have been . It assumes that we are somehow dissatisfied with what poetry we have from this period ; for such ...
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... surely on the verb that these nouns govern . In Yeats that verb is ' attend ' , and it is surely true that the degree of personification will be felt as slight or emphatic according as the reader is or is not apt at recognizing in a ...
... surely on the verb that these nouns govern . In Yeats that verb is ' attend ' , and it is surely true that the degree of personification will be felt as slight or emphatic according as the reader is or is not apt at recognizing in a ...
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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