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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Lytton Strachey. SIR THOMAS BROWNE THE life of Sir Thomas Browne does not afford much scope for the biographer . Everyone knows that Browne was a physician who lived at Norwich in the seventeenth century ; and , so far as regards what ...
Lytton Strachey. SIR THOMAS BROWNE THE life of Sir Thomas Browne does not afford much scope for the biographer . Everyone knows that Browne was a physician who lived at Norwich in the seventeenth century ; and , so far as regards what ...
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... Browne deserves to be remembered . Why then does he tell us so little about his literary form , and so much about his family , and his religion , and his scientific opinions , and his porridge , and who fished up the murex ? Nor is it ...
... Browne deserves to be remembered . Why then does he tell us so little about his literary form , and so much about his family , and his religion , and his scientific opinions , and his porridge , and who fished up the murex ? Nor is it ...
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... Browne . The critic who admits the jar , but continues to appreciate , must present , to the true enthusiast , a ... Browne's latinisms can possibly be valid . For it is surely an error to judge and to condemn the latinisms without ...
... Browne . The critic who admits the jar , but continues to appreciate , must present , to the true enthusiast , a ... Browne's latinisms can possibly be valid . For it is surely an error to judge and to condemn the latinisms without ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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