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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... wrote his conversation - piece , did not share in a general bounty vouchsafed to all cultivated and energetic men . It was not Augustan society nor ' the spirit of the age ' which wrote Three Dialogues and Alciphron . James Sutherland ...
... wrote his conversation - piece , did not share in a general bounty vouchsafed to all cultivated and energetic men . It was not Augustan society nor ' the spirit of the age ' which wrote Three Dialogues and Alciphron . James Sutherland ...
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... wrote : ' Descartes , Locke , and Newton , took away the world ... Berkeley restored the world . Berkeley has brought back to us the world that only exists because it shines and sounds . ' For our purposes , I believe , Yeats's position ...
... wrote : ' Descartes , Locke , and Newton , took away the world ... Berkeley restored the world . Berkeley has brought back to us the world that only exists because it shines and sounds . ' For our purposes , I believe , Yeats's position ...
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... wrote . And yet this meta- phor is not to be found in ' Longinus ' , ( whose treatise Smart studied when attending Bishop Lowth's lectures on Hebrew poetry ) , but in Horace's Ars Poetica ( 1.59 ) . It is a puzzling business , and ...
... wrote . And yet this meta- phor is not to be found in ' Longinus ' , ( whose treatise Smart studied when attending Bishop Lowth's lectures on Hebrew poetry ) , but in Horace's Ars Poetica ( 1.59 ) . It is a puzzling business , and ...
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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