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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... spirit of the writer to whose outward form they owed so much , has been pointed out by Mr. Gosse , who adds that Browne's ' genuine merits were rediscovered and asserted by Coleridge and Lamb . ' But we have already observed that Mr ...
... spirit of the writer to whose outward form they owed so much , has been pointed out by Mr. Gosse , who adds that Browne's ' genuine merits were rediscovered and asserted by Coleridge and Lamb . ' But we have already observed that Mr ...
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... spirit , for ever struggling with the ' Emana- tion , ' or imaginative side of man , whose triumph is the su- preme end of the universe . Ever since the day when , in his childhood , Blake had seen God's forehead at the window , he had ...
... spirit , for ever struggling with the ' Emana- tion , ' or imaginative side of man , whose triumph is the su- preme end of the universe . Ever since the day when , in his childhood , Blake had seen God's forehead at the window , he had ...
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... spirit is the classical spirit - that in which the beauties of originality and daring and surprise are made an easy sacrifice upon the altar of perfection ; but the classicism of China affords , in more than one respect , a curious ...
... spirit is the classical spirit - that in which the beauties of originality and daring and surprise are made an easy sacrifice upon the altar of perfection ; but the classicism of China affords , in more than one respect , a curious ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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