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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... downrightness , the outspokenness of bluff integ- rity . This conception needed no great genius to come by— it might have occurred to half a dozen of the Elizabethan dramatists , even without Iago as a model - but 28 OTHELLO.
... downrightness , the outspokenness of bluff integ- rity . This conception needed no great genius to come by— it might have occurred to half a dozen of the Elizabethan dramatists , even without Iago as a model - but 28 OTHELLO.
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... genius , could live for a day . ' But even if we all agree to be inspired together , we must still admit that there are degrees of inspiration ; if Mr. F's Aunt was a woman of genius , what are we to say of Hamlet ? And Blake , in the ...
... genius , could live for a day . ' But even if we all agree to be inspired together , we must still admit that there are degrees of inspiration ; if Mr. F's Aunt was a woman of genius , what are we to say of Hamlet ? And Blake , in the ...
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... genius , whose exterior speaks of the mild milk of human kindness , with which his temperament was flooded , and of the depth of an almost maniacal acuteness which mounted to his brain . ' These words of Dr. Brandes , which occur in a ...
... genius , whose exterior speaks of the mild milk of human kindness , with which his temperament was flooded , and of the depth of an almost maniacal acuteness which mounted to his brain . ' These words of Dr. Brandes , which occur in a ...
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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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