Literary EssaysA companion volume to Biographical Essays, this collection of twenty-five pieces includes two of Strachey's finest critical essays, "Shakespeare's Final Period" and "English Letter Writers." Index. |
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... Blake is known simply as a charming and splendid lyrist , as the author of Infant Foy , and The Tyger , and the rest of the Songs of Innocence and Ex- perience . These poems show but faint traces of any ... Blake 144 THE POETRY OF BLAKE.
... Blake is known simply as a charming and splendid lyrist , as the author of Infant Foy , and The Tyger , and the rest of the Songs of Innocence and Ex- perience . These poems show but faint traces of any ... Blake 144 THE POETRY OF BLAKE.
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Lytton Strachey. philosophy . Does Sir Walter mean to assert that Blake is , in this sense too , ' consistent ' ? It is a little difficult to discover . Referring , in his Introduction , to Blake's abusive notes on Bacon's Essays , he ...
Lytton Strachey. philosophy . Does Sir Walter mean to assert that Blake is , in this sense too , ' consistent ' ? It is a little difficult to discover . Referring , in his Introduction , to Blake's abusive notes on Bacon's Essays , he ...
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... Blake says in effect , ' and you are wicked if you think there is . ' If it is true that evil does not exist , all Blake's de- nunciations are so much empty chatter ; and , on the other hand , if there is a real distinction between good ...
... Blake says in effect , ' and you are wicked if you think there is . ' If it is true that evil does not exist , all Blake's de- nunciations are so much empty chatter ; and , on the other hand , if there is a real distinction between good ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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