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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... lived at a time when new words were coming into the language in great numbers . Some of these were undoubtedly , as Swift thought , pieces of new - fangled jargon which did not last but were subsequently , by another change of fashion ...
... lived at a time when new words were coming into the language in great numbers . Some of these were undoubtedly , as Swift thought , pieces of new - fangled jargon which did not last but were subsequently , by another change of fashion ...
Page 243
... lived ? That Gibbon has lived ? That Hume has lived , though a conceited Scotchman ? That Bolingbroke has lived , tho ' a haughty arrogant supercilious Dogmatist ? that Burke and Johnson have lived , though superstitious Slaves or self ...
... lived ? That Gibbon has lived ? That Hume has lived , though a conceited Scotchman ? That Bolingbroke has lived , tho ' a haughty arrogant supercilious Dogmatist ? that Burke and Johnson have lived , though superstitious Slaves or self ...
Page 266
... lived . To survive contemporaries and juniors is sad , and yet few will consider it a matter of regret to have that evidence of the power of life in one's self . ( It is a fine stroke , inciden- tally , to make Matthew rebuff the poet's ...
... lived . To survive contemporaries and juniors is sad , and yet few will consider it a matter of regret to have that evidence of the power of life in one's self . ( It is a fine stroke , inciden- tally , to make Matthew rebuff the poet's ...
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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