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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... taken means no more than to breathe or blow in : nothing therefore can be inspired but what can be blown or breathed , and nothing can be so but Wind or Vapour , which indeed may fill or puff up Men with fanatical and hypocondriacal ...
... taken means no more than to breathe or blow in : nothing therefore can be inspired but what can be blown or breathed , and nothing can be so but Wind or Vapour , which indeed may fill or puff up Men with fanatical and hypocondriacal ...
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... taken him back by sea to the Northwestern America he had glimpsed with Cook , Ledyard , under the characteristically guarded patronage of Jefferson and with funds supplied largely by Sir Joseph Banks and others in London , got two ...
... taken him back by sea to the Northwestern America he had glimpsed with Cook , Ledyard , under the characteristically guarded patronage of Jefferson and with funds supplied largely by Sir Joseph Banks and others in London , got two ...
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... taken that fearless option . In this they are like my honoured late friend Yvor Winters , by whom indeed some of them seem to have been influenced . But the plain fact is that we are nearer being contemporaries of Auden than of Dryden ...
... taken that fearless option . In this they are like my honoured late friend Yvor Winters , by whom indeed some of them seem to have been influenced . But the plain fact is that we are nearer being contemporaries of Auden than of Dryden ...
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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