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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Page 98
... charming , it was disgusting , it was ridiculous , and it was just what one might have expected . In such a world , why should poetry , more than anything else , be mysterious ? No ! Let it be sensible ; that was enough . The new ...
... charming , it was disgusting , it was ridiculous , and it was just what one might have expected . In such a world , why should poetry , more than anything else , be mysterious ? No ! Let it be sensible ; that was enough . The new ...
Page 203
... charming letters are those addressed , when he was Viceroy of India , to the late Queen . He had , too , a genius for friendship , so that his acquaintances very soon became his friends . One of his most intimate correspondents was Sir ...
... charming letters are those addressed , when he was Viceroy of India , to the late Queen . He had , too , a genius for friendship , so that his acquaintances very soon became his friends . One of his most intimate correspondents was Sir ...
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... some quiet quarto or some charming Aldus , to some black - letter Luther , some duodecimo Erasmus , or some vast and venerable Bede . IV HORACE WALPOLE THE letter - writing of the eighteenth 258 ENGLISH LETTER WRITERS.
... some quiet quarto or some charming Aldus , to some black - letter Luther , some duodecimo Erasmus , or some vast and venerable Bede . IV HORACE WALPOLE THE letter - writing of the eighteenth 258 ENGLISH LETTER WRITERS.
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SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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