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 104
... give his Characters the quality of a De Hoogh , and his aphorisms the brilliant hardness of a Greek gem . Every detail , every rhythm , every word , is essential to the beauty of the whole ; and to destroy a single one of them is to ...
... give his Characters the quality of a De Hoogh , and his aphorisms the brilliant hardness of a Greek gem . Every detail , every rhythm , every word , is essential to the beauty of the whole ; and to destroy a single one of them is to ...
Page 153
... give Shake- speare , Nelson , and Dr. Johnson their place in our pantheon -all these were Shelley's , but they were his in too undiluted and intense a form , with the result that , while he will never fail of worshippers among us ...
... give Shake- speare , Nelson , and Dr. Johnson their place in our pantheon -all these were Shelley's , but they were his in too undiluted and intense a form , with the result that , while he will never fail of worshippers among us ...
Page 154
... give his friends to understand it had been . For hardly more than a year , during the Italian cam- paign , he was in the army as a lieutenant of dragoons : the rest of his public service was spent in the commissariat department . The ...
... give his friends to understand it had been . For hardly more than a year , during the Italian cam- paign , he was in the army as a lieutenant of dragoons : the rest of his public service was spent in the commissariat department . The ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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