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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Page 68
... fact , political in the first place , a social fact in consequence . I have argued that this is the very sub- stance of Watts's ' We are a garden wall'd around ' , and that there is not nor could there be anything similar or analogous ...
... fact , political in the first place , a social fact in consequence . I have argued that this is the very sub- stance of Watts's ' We are a garden wall'd around ' , and that there is not nor could there be anything similar or analogous ...
Page 229
... fact is that we are nearer being contemporaries of Auden than of Dryden ; and that historical fact determines not just the themes to which we should address ourselves , but also the language we should use . Cer- tain historical ...
... fact is that we are nearer being contemporaries of Auden than of Dryden ; and that historical fact determines not just the themes to which we should address ourselves , but also the language we should use . Cer- tain historical ...
Page 292
... fact . It does not appeal to experience , for ' floating ' does not adequately represent the experience of seeing a bird in flight ; it is as vague as ' figure ' . Still less , on the other hand , does it appeal to a known fact ...
... fact . It does not appeal to experience , for ' floating ' does not adequately represent the experience of seeing a bird in flight ; it is as vague as ' figure ' . Still less , on the other hand , does it appeal to a known fact ...
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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