Twentieth-century Literature in RetrospectReuben Arthur Brower The sixteen essays in this second volume of Harvard English Studies explore and reevaluate the work of twentieth-century writers and critics from Joyce and James to Iris Murdoch and Mailer, from Yeats and Eliot to critics and poets of the present generation. Part I, "Writers and Critics," includes among other essays an exploration of erotic imagination in Dubliners and a study of Dickensian motifs in Murdoch's London novels. Other articles deal with the present standing of Yeats's and Eliot's poetry, the prosodies of free verse, and the role of the writer in modern fiction. Part II, "Twentieth Century Valuations Reconsidered" assesses some of the influential twentieth-century critical positions on Shakespeare, the pastoral, Donne, the metaphysical poets, Milton, Pope, and Wordsworth. Distinguished contributors include Josephine Miles, Frank Kermode, F. R. Leavis, and Christopher Ricks. |
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... centuries , are gradually being themselves turned into deviants . When the history of this transformation is written , I believe the late nineteenth century will be seen as a time of terrible quandary for traditional versification . To ...
... centuries , are gradually being themselves turned into deviants . When the history of this transformation is written , I believe the late nineteenth century will be seen as a time of terrible quandary for traditional versification . To ...
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... century , or that the poetry of succeed- ing centuries is indistinguishable from that of the Renaissance . But what happened is not something that will allow us to talk about crudeness of sensibility as if it were a historical phenome ...
... century , or that the poetry of succeed- ing centuries is indistinguishable from that of the Renaissance . But what happened is not something that will allow us to talk about crudeness of sensibility as if it were a historical phenome ...
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... century estimate of Pope , in its beginnings in Bloomsbury , to take Arnold's estimate as representing the nineteenth century in toto . Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf admired the feeling rationality of Pope and his contemporaries ...
... century estimate of Pope , in its beginnings in Bloomsbury , to take Arnold's estimate as representing the nineteenth century in toto . Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf admired the feeling rationality of Pope and his contemporaries ...
Contents
MONROE ENGEL Dubliners and Erotic Expectation | 3 |
HELEN GARDNER T S Eliot | 27 |
FRANK KERMODE The English Novel circa 1907 | 45 |
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A. R. Ammons achieved action Arnold attitudes Bruno's Dream called century character criticism death Donne Donne's dream Dubliners Eliot Empson English essay experience expression F. R. Leavis fear feel fiction free verse Frost heart human I. A. Richards imagination impulses Iris Murdoch Joyce kind language Leavis less lines literary London look lyric Marvell meaning ment metaphor metaphysical metaphysical poetry Milton mind Miss Murdoch modern moral narrator nature Nora novel Paradise Lost passage passion pastoral performance phrase play poem poet poet's poetic poetry Pope Pope's prepositions prosody question reader Renaissance reprinted by permission rhythm Richards romantic Ruined Cottage scene seems sense sentence Shakespeare Sherrington stanza Stevens story style Symbolist T. S. Eliot Theocritus things thought tion tone tradition truth turn voice W. B. Yeats Wallace Stevens whole words Wordsworth writing Yeats Yeats's York
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Twentieth-century Short Story Explication: Supplement 3. 1981-1984, Volume 4 Warren S. Walker No preview available - 1977 |