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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... mysterious and the infinite . No doubt this is partly due to our English habit of associating these qualities with expressions which are complex and unfamiliar . When we come across the mysterious accent of fatality and remote terror in ...
... mysterious and the infinite . No doubt this is partly due to our English habit of associating these qualities with expressions which are complex and unfamiliar . When we come across the mysterious accent of fatality and remote terror in ...
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... mysterious forces of the world . The publication of The Ancient Mariner is a landmark in the history of letters , not because of its descriptions of natural objects , but because it swept into the poet's vision a whole new universe of ...
... mysterious forces of the world . The publication of The Ancient Mariner is a landmark in the history of letters , not because of its descriptions of natural objects , but because it swept into the poet's vision a whole new universe of ...
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... mysterious suggestions which lie concealed in words is complete . He who torments the Chafer's Sprite Weaves a Bower ... mysteriously come together , in one of Beethoven's Symphonies , to predict the annihilation of worlds : On the ...
... mysterious suggestions which lie concealed in words is complete . He who torments the Chafer's Sprite Weaves a Bower ... mysteriously come together , in one of Beethoven's Symphonies , to predict the annihilation of worlds : On 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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