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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... 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 involved this limitation of the range of his ...
... 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 involved this limitation of the range of his ...
Page 128
... whole of it — a breadth of outlook upon life , which can be paralleled by no other body of literature in the world save that of the Elizabethans . But the comprehensiveness of view shared by Dickens and Tolstoy , by Balzac and George ...
... whole of it — a breadth of outlook upon life , which can be paralleled by no other body of literature in the world save that of the Elizabethans . But the comprehensiveness of view shared by Dickens and Tolstoy , by Balzac and George ...
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... whole day ; and though I dare to say I appear to many capricious , and different from the rest of the world , there ... whole rest of the young world , they are as indifferent to me as pup- pets or black children . This is my creed , and ...
... whole day ; and though I dare to say I appear to many capricious , and different from the rest of the world , there ... whole rest of the young world , they are as indifferent to me as pup- pets or black children . This is my creed , and ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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