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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... senses , as follows ( 1 ) ' Without taste , tasteless ' , of which it gives six examples , ranging between 1620 and 1822 ; ( 2 ) a figurative sense , ' Wanting the qualities which excite interest or emotion ; unin- teresting , lifeless ...
... senses , as follows ( 1 ) ' Without taste , tasteless ' , of which it gives six examples , ranging between 1620 and 1822 ; ( 2 ) a figurative sense , ' Wanting the qualities which excite interest or emotion ; unin- teresting , lifeless ...
Page 87
... sense for ' astringent ' comes from Byron's Don Juan , Book 5 , in 1820. I think I have found what amounts to figurative use of both these words , as of the cognate word ' astringe ' , in William Law in the 1740s a matter to which I may ...
... sense for ' astringent ' comes from Byron's Don Juan , Book 5 , in 1820. I think I have found what amounts to figurative use of both these words , as of the cognate word ' astringe ' , in William Law in the 1740s a matter to which I may ...
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... sense : ( after Ger . Aufklärung ) Shallow and pretentious intellectualism , unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition , etc .; applied esp . to the spirit and aims of the French philosophers of the 18th c . At the date given ...
... sense : ( after Ger . Aufklärung ) Shallow and pretentious intellectualism , unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition , etc .; applied esp . to the spirit and aims of the French philosophers of the 18th c . At the date given ...
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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