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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... tion is set going on the required lines . Among a multitude of minor details , all introduced for the same purpose , one in particular deserves remark . Othello - so Shakespeare more than once gives us to understand - was not merely a ...
... tion is set going on the required lines . Among a multitude of minor details , all introduced for the same purpose , one in particular deserves remark . Othello - so Shakespeare more than once gives us to understand - was not merely a ...
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... tion of style . Over them , the most insignificant of his verses can throw a deep enchantment , like the faintest wavings of a magician's wand . ' A - t - on vu de ma part le roi de Comagène ? ' How is it that words of such slight ...
... tion of style . Over them , the most insignificant of his verses can throw a deep enchantment , like the faintest wavings of a magician's wand . ' A - t - on vu de ma part le roi de Comagène ? ' How is it that words of such slight ...
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... century is no excep- tion to this rule ; and he would be blind indeed who failed to perceive emotion in the Journal to Stella or the letters of Mademoiselle de Lespinasse . Yet upon the whole the letters 243 ENGLISH LETTER WRITERS.
... century is no excep- tion to this rule ; and he would be blind indeed who failed to perceive emotion in the Journal to Stella or the letters of Mademoiselle de Lespinasse . Yet upon the whole the letters 243 ENGLISH LETTER WRITERS.
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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