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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... precisely this that he brings about , by what are apparently the simplest means , effects which other poets must strain every nerve to produce . The narrowness of his vocabulary is in fact nothing but a proof of his amazing art . In the ...
... precisely this that he brings about , by what are apparently the simplest means , effects which other poets must strain every nerve to produce . The narrowness of his vocabulary is in fact nothing but a proof of his amazing art . In the ...
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... and wonderful significance . The truth is that it is precisely in such cases as Dostoievsky's that the presence or the absence of humour is of the highest importance . With some writers it hardly occurs to us 216 A RUSSIAN HUMORIST.
... and wonderful significance . The truth is that it is precisely in such cases as Dostoievsky's that the presence or the absence of humour is of the highest importance . With some writers it hardly occurs to us 216 A RUSSIAN HUMORIST.
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... precisely the same leisurely aristocratic manner ? For , if the eighteenth century was profoundly an age of activity , it was also , no less profoundly , an age of leisure . The conflict and torment of the religious struggles , into ...
... precisely the same leisurely aristocratic manner ? For , if the eighteenth century was profoundly an age of activity , it was also , no less profoundly , an age of leisure . The conflict and torment of the religious struggles , into ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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