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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... wrote state papers to Lord Salisbury , he specu- lated on life and death with Theodor Gomperz , he ex- changed epigrams with Lady Dorothy Nevill , he gossiped with Mr. John Morley , and some of his most charming letters are those ...
... wrote state papers to Lord Salisbury , he specu- lated on life and death with Theodor Gomperz , he ex- changed epigrams with Lady Dorothy Nevill , he gossiped with Mr. John Morley , and some of his most charming letters are those ...
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... wrote of literature , they wrote of it as an art ; but the Victorian critic had a different notion of his business . To him literature was always an excuse for talking about something else . From Macaulay , who used it as a convenient ...
... wrote of literature , they wrote of it as an art ; but the Victorian critic had a different notion of his business . To him literature was always an excuse for talking about something else . From Macaulay , who used it as a convenient ...
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... wrote his letters in a room full of company ; and the story is not only interesting as an illustration of the facility with which he wrote . For the precise impression produced upon us by the best of his letters is that they were ...
... wrote his letters in a room full of company ; and the story is not only interesting as an illustration of the facility with which he wrote . For the precise impression produced upon us by the best of his letters is that they were ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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