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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... writing which was congenial to itself , emphasised it , amplified it , and en- dowed it with a new immortality . But it was not to be ex- pected that even Urquhart's magic could have transmuted more than a part of the glorious gold of ...
... writing which was congenial to itself , emphasised it , amplified it , and en- dowed it with a new immortality . But it was not to be ex- pected that even Urquhart's magic could have transmuted more than a part of the glorious gold of ...
Page 243
... writing . A letter is only less private than a diary ; here , there- fore , if anywhere , the public conventions of writing are easily overturned , here , where all the particular accidents of cir- cumstance and character , all the ...
... writing . A letter is only less private than a diary ; here , there- fore , if anywhere , the public conventions of writing are easily overturned , here , where all the particular accidents of cir- cumstance and character , all the ...
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... writing were swept away and utterly abolished , Swift's literary stature would be unchanged . It will be sufficient ... writers . His prose style has been aptly compared to a sheet of plate - glass through which every object appears in ...
... writing were swept away and utterly abolished , Swift's literary stature would be unchanged . It will be sufficient ... writers . His prose style has been aptly compared to a sheet of plate - glass through which every object appears in ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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