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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... produced the remarkable sense of contrast which this short phrase conveys , if his vocabulary had been limited , in ... produce in his readers was nearly always a complicated one : they were to be im- pressed and elevated by a ...
... produced the remarkable sense of contrast which this short phrase conveys , if his vocabulary had been limited , in ... produce in his readers was nearly always a complicated one : they were to be im- pressed and elevated by a ...
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... produced his greatest work late in life ; for there is nothing in the Religio Medici which reaches the same level of excellence as the last paragraphs of The Garden of Cyrus and the last chapter of Urn Burial . A long and calm ex ...
... produced his greatest work late in life ; for there is nothing in the Religio Medici which reaches the same level of excellence as the last paragraphs of The Garden of Cyrus and the last chapter of Urn Burial . A long and calm ex ...
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... produced no effect on us ; the ordered dance strikes us as a monotony , for we are blind to the subtle delicacies of ... produce . The narrowness of his vocabulary is in fact nothing but a proof of his amazing art . In the following ...
... produced no effect on us ; the ordered dance strikes us as a monotony , for we are blind to the subtle delicacies of ... produce . The narrowness of his vocabulary is in fact nothing but a proof of his amazing art . In the following ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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