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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... vision of virtue and beauty triumphant over ugliness and vice fails to dispel a total effect of horror and of gloom ... visions , a world of hopeless anachronisms , a world in which anything may happen next . The pretences of reality are ...
... vision of virtue and beauty triumphant over ugliness and vice fails to dispel a total effect of horror and of gloom ... visions , a world of hopeless anachronisms , a world in which anything may happen next . The pretences of reality are ...
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... vision , he complains , does not ' take in the whole of life ' ; we do not find in his plays ' the whole pell - mell of human existence ' ; and this is true , because the particular effects which Racine wished to produce necessarily ...
... vision , he complains , does not ' take in the whole of life ' ; we do not find in his plays ' the whole pell - mell of human existence ' ; and this is true , because the particular effects which Racine wished to produce necessarily ...
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... vision , but through the poet's sweet articulation - through verse . Upon English ears the rhymed couplets of Racine sound strangely ; and how many besides Mr. Bailey have dubbed his alexandrines ' monotonous ' ! But to his lovers , to ...
... vision , but through the poet's sweet articulation - through verse . Upon English ears the rhymed couplets of Racine sound strangely ; and how many besides Mr. Bailey have dubbed his alexandrines ' monotonous ' ! But to his lovers , to ...
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SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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