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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... reason or other , have failed to come down to us , as they deserved , along the current of time , but have drifted into a literary backwater where only the professional critic or the curious discoverer can find them out . " The iniquity ...
... reason or other , have failed to come down to us , as they deserved , along the current of time , but have drifted into a literary backwater where only the professional critic or the curious discoverer can find them out . " The iniquity ...
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... reason is to make an appeal to a tribunal whose jurisdiction he had always refused to recognise as binding . In fact , to Blake's mind , the laws of reason were nothing but a horrible phantasm deluding and perplexing mankind , from ...
... reason is to make an appeal to a tribunal whose jurisdiction he had always refused to recognise as binding . In fact , to Blake's mind , the laws of reason were nothing but a horrible phantasm deluding and perplexing mankind , from ...
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... reason - because he possessed so many of them in an extreme degree . The idealism , the daring , the imagination , and the unconventionality which give Shake- speare , Nelson , and Dr. Johnson their place in our pantheon -all these were ...
... reason - because he possessed so many of them in an extreme degree . The idealism , the daring , the imagination , and the unconventionality which give Shake- speare , Nelson , and Dr. Johnson their place in our pantheon -all these were ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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