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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... verse . Milton's definition of blank verse is well known , and it cannot be bettered : it consists , he says , ' in apt numbers , fit quantity of syllables , and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another . ' Its essence ...
... verse . Milton's definition of blank verse is well known , and it cannot be bettered : it consists , he says , ' in apt numbers , fit quantity of syllables , and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another . ' Its essence ...
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... verse , about 1630 , that the essential characteristics which lay con- cealed in the couplet began to be exploited . It was Waller who first fully apprehended the implications of regularity ; and it is to this fact that his immense ...
... verse , about 1630 , that the essential characteristics which lay con- cealed in the couplet began to be exploited . It was Waller who first fully apprehended the implications of regularity ; and it is to this fact that his immense ...
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... verse that is not artificial , and that is , bad verse . Yet it is true that there is a sense in which Pope's couplet is more artificial than , let us say , the later blank verse of Shakespeare - it has less resemblance to nature . It ...
... verse that is not artificial , and that is , bad verse . Yet it is true that there is a sense in which Pope's couplet is more artificial than , let us say , the later blank verse of Shakespeare - it has less resemblance to nature . It ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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