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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... expression and in part upon the fiat of poets and masters of prose . A great artist can invest a common word with a miraculous significance can suddenly turn a halfpenny into a five - pound note . He can do more ; he can bring back a ...
... expression and in part upon the fiat of poets and masters of prose . A great artist can invest a common word with a miraculous significance can suddenly turn a halfpenny into a five - pound note . He can do more ; he can bring back a ...
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... expressions ! is the Englishman's first thought - with the conventional ' Neptune , ' and the vague ' armée , ' and the commonplace ' vents . ' And he forgets to notice the total impression which these words produce- the atmosphere of ...
... expressions ! is the Englishman's first thought - with the conventional ' Neptune , ' and the vague ' armée , ' and the commonplace ' vents . ' And he forgets to notice the total impression which these words produce- the atmosphere of ...
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... expression of a hatred and scorn of everything short of perfection . Whether such ideals were ever realised , whether their realisation was even possible , may indeed be doubted : what cannot be doubted is that they formed the framework ...
... expression of a hatred and scorn of everything short of perfection . Whether such ideals were ever realised , whether their realisation was even possible , may indeed be doubted : what cannot be doubted is that they formed the framework ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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