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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... Tradition , I had thought that its title meant something like ' The Chaucerian Tradi- tion in English Poetry ' . I looked forward to essays which would ask what justification there is , if any , for using the word ' Chaucerian ' of ...
... Tradition , I had thought that its title meant something like ' The Chaucerian Tradi- tion in English Poetry ' . I looked forward to essays which would ask what justification there is , if any , for using the word ' Chaucerian ' of ...
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... tradition of wit might well find that some of the ideas of Newton and Locke suited his purpose ' . In fact ... tradition of comic writing , but , rather , refreshed and gave new impetus and opportunities to an old tradition . This was ...
... tradition of wit might well find that some of the ideas of Newton and Locke suited his purpose ' . In fact ... tradition of comic writing , but , rather , refreshed and gave new impetus and opportunities to an old tradition . This was ...
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... tradition , when it was no longer sure of itself . I will play fair here and admit that one of the few things I know about Bryant is that he read and admired Blair and Kirke White , poets in whom the Augustan diction has become ...
... tradition , when it was no longer sure of itself . I will play fair here and admit that one of the few things I know about Bryant is that he read and admired Blair and Kirke White , poets in whom the Augustan diction has become ...
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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