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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... kind of cheat , " says Pound , then goes on to announce that this kind of cheating and falsifying has been going on for the last fifty years in America . He is there to blow the whistle , for he knows that " the mental life of a nation ...
... kind of cheat , " says Pound , then goes on to announce that this kind of cheating and falsifying has been going on for the last fifty years in America . He is there to blow the whistle , for he knows that " the mental life of a nation ...
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... kind of power ... which comes from below the intellect , and for which no theory of humours will account . " No theory of anything , it might be added ; but the " kind of power " is creatively evoked by Eliot's own prose as it salutes ...
... kind of power ... which comes from below the intellect , and for which no theory of humours will account . " No theory of anything , it might be added ; but the " kind of power " is creatively evoked by Eliot's own prose as it salutes ...
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... kind of suffragist chivalry , at the mere thought of " Woman . " In woman [ virtue ] is the putting forth of all herself in a delicate , mar- vellous , sensitiveness , which draws forth the wonder to herself , etc. ( To " draw the ...
... kind of suffragist chivalry , at the mere thought of " Woman . " In woman [ virtue ] is the putting forth of all herself in a delicate , mar- vellous , sensitiveness , which draws forth the wonder to herself , etc. ( To " draw the ...
Contents
POETRY AND POETS | 1 |
A Witness Tree and Frosts Biography 20 | 20 |
Reading The Waste Land Today | 36 |
Copyright | |
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