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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... speak of the fury in such quiet words , they are surely the ones which move with each other and move us . As students ... speaks of as " symbol " : What writing drags into being and holds there while the writing lasts may be called the ...
... speak of the fury in such quiet words , they are surely the ones which move with each other and move us . As students ... speaks of as " symbol " : What writing drags into being and holds there while the writing lasts may be called the ...
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... speaks . We can be trusted to know when criticism behaves as if the man who wrote it embodied such a gesture , and we will be grateful for the effort of creative articulation that gave the gesture words that speak to us . 6. As an ...
... speaks . We can be trusted to know when criticism behaves as if the man who wrote it embodied such a gesture , and we will be grateful for the effort of creative articulation that gave the gesture words that speak to us . 6. As an ...
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... speak , in the preface to the Dictionary , in the first person and " for " —as its representative in this great work — the English nation . Indeed , in the preface to his edition of Shakespeare , Johnson speaks not for just a nation but ...
... speak , in the preface to the Dictionary , in the first person and " for " —as its representative in this great work — the English nation . Indeed , in the preface to his edition of Shakespeare , Johnson speaks not for just a nation but ...
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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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