Shelf Life: Literary Essays and ReviewsIn this collection of essays and reviews, William H. Pritchard focuses on the work of English and American writers, most of them from the 20th century. Prichard's aim is to reinstate the aesthetic as a major motive for literary study. |
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... essay gave him , Ben Jonson has not in the last fifty years attracted three thousand people in London or elsewhere . But , of course , Eliot was not simply talking about Jonson here ; and the poem which appeared three years after the essay ...
... essay gave him , Ben Jonson has not in the last fifty years attracted three thousand people in London or elsewhere . But , of course , Eliot was not simply talking about Jonson here ; and the poem which appeared three years after the essay ...
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... essay on Babbitt takes us back to where we began : with the critic's necessity of bringing to consciousness the means of performance . The analogies with music that Blackmur is so fond of making tell us much about his conception of the ...
... essay on Babbitt takes us back to where we began : with the critic's necessity of bringing to consciousness the means of performance . The analogies with music that Blackmur is so fond of making tell us much about his conception of the ...
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... essays his son published after Collins's death - lectures , most of them , with plenty of passages quoted but too often simply affirmed as noble . The essay on Wordsworth , significantly titled " Wordsworth as a Teacher , " is one of ...
... essays his son published after Collins's death - lectures , most of them , with plenty of passages quoted but too often simply affirmed as noble . The essay on Wordsworth , significantly titled " Wordsworth as a Teacher , " is one of ...
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POETRY AND POETS | 1 |
A Witness Tree and Frosts Biography 20 | 20 |
Reading The Waste Land Today | 36 |
Copyright | |
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