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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Page 68
... true of Taylor's poetry , seems to be equally untrue of many American poets since Taylor . When I read their poems - I think for the moment of a poet so widely read and widely publicized as Robert Lowell - I get the vivid impression ...
... true of Taylor's poetry , seems to be equally untrue of many American poets since Taylor . When I read their poems - I think for the moment of a poet so widely read and widely publicized as Robert Lowell - I get the vivid impression ...
Page 69
... true of American poets who are strenuous Unbelievers , as of Edward Taylor who was a strenuous Believer . And I am ready to think that it is very generally true of American poets , or of such of them as need to be remembered : they ...
... true of American poets who are strenuous Unbelievers , as of Edward Taylor who was a strenuous Believer . And I am ready to think that it is very generally true of American poets , or of such of them as need to be remembered : they ...
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... true said I , rising from my reverie and walking out into the middle of the green in the full moonshine , where I could extend my prospects and where the sounds that preceded from the circumventulating flutes would more regularly pass ...
... true said I , rising from my reverie and walking out into the middle of the green in the full moonshine , where I could extend my prospects and where the sounds that preceded from the circumventulating flutes would more regularly pass ...
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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