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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... prose style of which it is the consummate expression he denounces as fundamentally wrong . The contradiction is obvious ; but there can be little doubt that , though Browne has , as it were , extorted a personal homage , Mr. Gosse's ...
... prose style of which it is the consummate expression he denounces as fundamentally wrong . The contradiction is obvious ; but there can be little doubt that , though Browne has , as it were , extorted a personal homage , Mr. Gosse's ...
Page 37
... prose style - the style which Dryden first established and Swift brought to per- fection are obvious enough . Its advantages are those of clarity and force ; but its faults , which , of course , are unim- portant in the work of a great ...
... prose style - the style which Dryden first established and Swift brought to per- fection are obvious enough . Its advantages are those of clarity and force ; but its faults , which , of course , are unim- portant in the work of a great ...
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... prose . Even Mr. Hardy's grammar is not impeccable . He speaks of one , whom , anon , My great deeds done , Will be ... prose fiction . Just as the great seventeenth - century writers of prose , such as Sir Thomas Browne and Jeremy ...
... prose . Even Mr. Hardy's grammar is not impeccable . He speaks of one , whom , anon , My great deeds done , Will be ... prose fiction . Just as the great seventeenth - century writers of prose , such as Sir Thomas Browne and Jeremy ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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