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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... imagination in it , And roots that stretch even beneath the grave . It is really a case of Frankenstein and his monster . These things that we have made are as alive as we are , and we have become their slaves . Words are like coins ( a ...
... imagination in it , And roots that stretch even beneath the grave . It is really a case of Frankenstein and his monster . These things that we have made are as alive as we are , and we have become their slaves . Words are like coins ( a ...
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... imaginative luxury of our early tragedies , which seem to have been moulded out of the very stuff of life and to have ... imagination to feed on , nothing to raise expectation , no wondrous vision of ' blasted heaths , or the ' seaboard ...
... imaginative luxury of our early tragedies , which seem to have been moulded out of the very stuff of life and to have ... imagination to feed on , nothing to raise expectation , no wondrous vision of ' blasted heaths , or the ' seaboard ...
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... imaginative side of man , whose triumph is the su- preme end of the universe . Ever since the day when , in his ... imagination alone , that Blake yielded the allegiance of his spirit . His attitude towards reason was the attitude ...
... imaginative side of man , whose triumph is the su- preme end of the universe . Ever since the day when , in his ... imagination alone , that Blake yielded the allegiance of his spirit . His attitude towards reason was the attitude ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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