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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... seems to be no less un- mistakably unrabelaisian . The great Curé of Meudon may perhaps be described as a satirist ; but he was certainly the best - natured satirist who ever lived . No doubt , too , he was a reformer - almost a ...
... seems to be no less un- mistakably unrabelaisian . The great Curé of Meudon may perhaps be described as a satirist ; but he was certainly the best - natured satirist who ever lived . No doubt , too , he was a reformer - almost a ...
Page 196
... seems to apply ; one cannot but feel that Professor Trevelyan's epic would have been still more delightful if it had contained a little of the salt of criticism- if , in fact , he had not swallowed Garibaldi whole . As for Macaulay's ...
... seems to apply ; one cannot but feel that Professor Trevelyan's epic would have been still more delightful if it had contained a little of the salt of criticism- if , in fact , he had not swallowed Garibaldi whole . As for Macaulay's ...
Page 241
... seems to be one and the same when we are considering the younger Pliny and when we are con- sidering the elder Pitt . Both seem most fittingly to live and move and have their being in some well - ordered garden , where the afternoons ...
... seems to be one and the same when we are considering the younger Pliny and when we are con- sidering the elder Pitt . Both seem most fittingly to live and move and have their being in some well - ordered garden , where the afternoons ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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