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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... passion upon unravelling the mystery with which he is faced . A detective - autocrat , his ironic tragedy comes when ... passionate nature ; but his intellectual equipment must be exactly the reverse of that of Edipus he must be simple ...
... passion upon unravelling the mystery with which he is faced . A detective - autocrat , his ironic tragedy comes when ... passionate nature ; but his intellectual equipment must be exactly the reverse of that of Edipus he must be simple ...
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... passion , have an intensity of directness unknown in actual life . In such moments , the phrases that leap to their lips quiver and glow with the compressed significance of character and situation ; the ' Qui te l'a dit ? ' of Hermione ...
... passion , have an intensity of directness unknown in actual life . In such moments , the phrases that leap to their lips quiver and glow with the compressed significance of character and situation ; the ' Qui te l'a dit ? ' of Hermione ...
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... passionate and complicated material from which he wove his patterns of balanced precision and polished clarity ... passion , and their prize a sot ; Alive ridiculous , and dead forgot ! And now , perhaps , we have discovered what ...
... passionate and complicated material from which he wove his patterns of balanced precision and polished clarity ... passion , and their prize a sot ; Alive ridiculous , and dead forgot ! And now , perhaps , we have discovered what ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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