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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... elaborate label . He was ' di bellissima presenza , ma della più scelerata natura che mai fosse huomo del mondo , ' and ' quantunque egli fosse di vilissimo animo , copriva nondimeno , coll'alte e superbe parole e colla sua presenza ...
... elaborate label . He was ' di bellissima presenza , ma della più scelerata natura che mai fosse huomo del mondo , ' and ' quantunque egli fosse di vilissimo animo , copriva nondimeno , coll'alte e superbe parole e colla sua presenza ...
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... elaborate , conventional , concocted age . But that it was ' artificial ' in another sense , that it was frigid and mechanical and devoid of passion to suppose this would be to fall into grave error . Doubtless the supposition is often ...
... elaborate , conventional , concocted age . But that it was ' artificial ' in another sense , that it was frigid and mechanical and devoid of passion to suppose this would be to fall into grave error . Doubtless the supposition is often ...
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... elaborate and leisured civilisation of the time might flow . An eighteenth - century letter is the true epitome of the eighteenth century ; and the pair of lovers described by Walpole , who sat all day in one room with a screen between ...
... elaborate and leisured civilisation of the time might flow . An eighteenth - century letter is the true epitome of the eighteenth century ; and the pair of lovers described by Walpole , who sat all day in one room with a screen between ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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