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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... kind in the Dictionary . ' Berkeley , for instance , had challenged the Lockean system ; but Johnson , it seems , chose to ignore the challenge . This goes along with Johnson's known dislike of Berkeleyan thought as he understood it ...
... kind in the Dictionary . ' Berkeley , for instance , had challenged the Lockean system ; but Johnson , it seems , chose to ignore the challenge . This goes along with Johnson's known dislike of Berkeleyan thought as he understood it ...
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... kind of lyric poetry ... which , like epic poetry , tends to be direct and normative in style ... to eschew metaphor or else to use it for mere rhetorical condensation instead of Blake's apocalyptic overtones or Baudelaire's ...
... kind of lyric poetry ... which , like epic poetry , tends to be direct and normative in style ... to eschew metaphor or else to use it for mere rhetorical condensation instead of Blake's apocalyptic overtones or Baudelaire's ...
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... kind of poem . But if Horace's poem is the sort that does have a fulcrum , then Smart's treatment of it will be crucial . And Cunningham indi- cates what the fulcrum is ; it is the famous line and a half , Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede ...
... kind of poem . But if Horace's poem is the sort that does have a fulcrum , then Smart's treatment of it will be crucial . And Cunningham indi- cates what the fulcrum is ; it is the famous line and a half , Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede ...
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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