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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... complete ; and a compromise appears to be impossible . If we are right , Johnson must have been wrong ; if we are wrong , Johnson must have been right . But we , ex hypothesi , are right ; how then did it happen - it is the only ...
... complete ; and a compromise appears to be impossible . If we are right , Johnson must have been wrong ; if we are wrong , Johnson must have been right . But we , ex hypothesi , are right ; how then did it happen - it is the only ...
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... complete the business by clapping a title to their decoction - ' Love's Secret ' - a title which there is no reason to suppose had ever entered the poet's mind . Besides illustrating the shortcomings of his editors , this little poem is ...
... complete the business by clapping a title to their decoction - ' Love's Secret ' - a title which there is no reason to suppose had ever entered the poet's mind . Besides illustrating the shortcomings of his editors , this little poem is ...
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... complete between this monolithic nature and the mercurial temperament of Lord Lytton , with his ardent imagination , his easy brilliance , his passionate sympathy , his taste for the elaborate and the coloured and the rococo . Such ...
... complete between this monolithic nature and the mercurial temperament of Lord Lytton , with his ardent imagination , his easy brilliance , his passionate sympathy , his taste for the elaborate and the coloured and the rococo . Such ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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