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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... never so much prejudice or even ruin our families , could never reach many ; whereas charity , in the other and truer sense , might be extended to all mankind . ' ( II , v ) Berkeley never makes candour mean as much as this . Nor indeed ...
... never so much prejudice or even ruin our families , could never reach many ; whereas charity , in the other and truer sense , might be extended to all mankind . ' ( II , v ) Berkeley never makes candour mean as much as this . Nor indeed ...
Page 237
... never to barter your liberty from the lordly servitude of a court , but to live free , fearless , and indepen- dent ? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution ; and perhaps but one . Never enter the place from ...
... never to barter your liberty from the lordly servitude of a court , but to live free , fearless , and indepen- dent ? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution ; and perhaps but one . Never enter the place from ...
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... Never a caesura that does not fall pat and undemanding , never before or after the caesura a reversed foot , no interplay that isn't rudimentary between vowel and consonant , no memorable cadence , no justifica- tion but metrical ...
... Never a caesura that does not fall pat and undemanding , never before or after the caesura a reversed foot , no interplay that isn't rudimentary between vowel and consonant , no memorable cadence , no justifica- tion but metrical ...
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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