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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Page 37
... 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 master ...
... 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 master ...
Page 39
... style be allowed as a legitimate form of art , no attack such as Mr. Gosse makes on Browne's latinisms can possibly be valid . For it is surely an error to judge and to condemn the latinisms without reference to the whole style of which ...
... style be allowed as a legitimate form of art , no attack such as Mr. Gosse makes on Browne's latinisms can possibly be valid . For it is surely an error to judge and to condemn the latinisms without reference to the whole style of which ...
Page 128
... style , it is true , is on the whole poor ; it is often heavy and pompous , sometimes clumsy and indistinct ; compared with the style of such a master as Thackeray it sinks at once into insignificance . But the interest of her style ...
... style , it is true , is on the whole poor ; it is often heavy and pompous , sometimes clumsy and indistinct ; compared with the style of such a master as Thackeray it sinks at once into insignificance . But the interest of her style ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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