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 48
... lack of decency which is common to such a vast number of illustrious writers and which , in fact , forms the very essence of the work of some of the most illustrious of all . He accordingly attempted to show that the Restoration ...
... lack of decency which is common to such a vast number of illustrious writers and which , in fact , forms the very essence of the work of some of the most illustrious of all . He accordingly attempted to show that the Restoration ...
Page 68
... lack of extravagance and bravura , besides his dislike of exaggerated emphasis and far - fetched or fantastic imagery , there is another characteristic of his style to which we are perhaps even more antipathetic - its suppression of ...
... lack of extravagance and bravura , besides his dislike of exaggerated emphasis and far - fetched or fantastic imagery , there is another characteristic of his style to which we are perhaps even more antipathetic - its suppression of ...
Page 122
... of their innate incapacity for estimating the true value of the characterisation in a work of fiction , their utter lack of flair for portraiture , that they left it to the nineteenth century to discover the fact that 122 THE WRONG TURNING.
... of their innate incapacity for estimating the true value of the characterisation in a work of fiction , their utter lack of flair for portraiture , that they left it to the nineteenth century to discover the fact that 122 THE WRONG TURNING.
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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