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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... sense , in short , of the relations between man and the universe ; and , since Racine is without this quality , his claim to true poetic greatness must be denied . But , even upon the supposition that this view of Racine's philosophical ...
... sense , in short , of the relations between man and the universe ; and , since Racine is without this quality , his claim to true poetic greatness must be denied . But , even upon the supposition that this view of Racine's philosophical ...
Page 217
... senses in a very different fashion ; it comes to us amid terror and exorbitance - not in the clear light of day ... sense of humour puts , as it were , a stiff stout walking - stick into the hand of his reader , and bids him lean on ...
... senses in a very different fashion ; it comes to us amid terror and exorbitance - not in the clear light of day ... sense of humour puts , as it were , a stiff stout walking - stick into the hand of his reader , and bids him lean on ...
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... sense in which the imputation is true enough . The age was certainly ' artificial ' in so far as it was the very contrary of being spontaneous ; it was a highly elaborate , conventional , concocted age . But that it was ' artificial ...
... sense in which the imputation is true enough . The age was certainly ' artificial ' in so far as it was the very contrary of being spontaneous ; it was a highly elaborate , conventional , concocted age . But that it was ' artificial ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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