Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American LiteratureTo mark his seventieth birthday, Continuum published some of the critical writings of the man whom the London Times hailed as, "the preeminent English poet-critic of our time". |
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... essay is neither one thing nor the other . The two halves pull away . The non - critical aspect of the Essay is announced in the Dedica- tion : And yet , my Lord , this war of opinions , you well know , has fallen out among the writers ...
... essay is neither one thing nor the other . The two halves pull away . The non - critical aspect of the Essay is announced in the Dedica- tion : And yet , my Lord , this war of opinions , you well know , has fallen out among the writers ...
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... Essay . All the same , that is just what this is – an exercise of wit , the pleasantry of an intelligent amateur , not the analysis of a practising poet . Already Dryden is in trouble with the convention he has chosen ; for what he ...
... Essay . All the same , that is just what this is – an exercise of wit , the pleasantry of an intelligent amateur , not the analysis of a practising poet . Already Dryden is in trouble with the convention he has chosen ; for what he ...
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... Essay . But it is surely necessary to take into account , in this connexion , the form of the Essay . By throwing it into the form of a conversation - piece Dryden is trying to fulfil the promise he makes in his prefatory Epistle , to ...
... Essay . But it is surely necessary to take into account , in this connexion , the form of the Essay . By throwing it into the form of a conversation - piece Dryden is trying to fulfil the promise he makes in his prefatory Epistle , to ...
Contents
Contents 1 Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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