English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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Page 88
... perhaps his superior . ' To begin , then , with Shakespeare . He was the man who of all modern , and perhaps ancient poets , had the largest and most comprehensive soul . All the images of nature were still present to him , and he drew ...
... perhaps his superior . ' To begin , then , with Shakespeare . He was the man who of all modern , and perhaps ancient poets , had the largest and most comprehensive soul . All the images of nature were still present to him , and he drew ...
Page 157
... perhaps never 1010 happened , and which , whether likely or not , he did not invent . So careless was this great poet of future fame , that , though he retired to ease and plenty , while he was yet little declined into the vale of years ...
... perhaps never 1010 happened , and which , whether likely or not , he did not invent . So careless was this great poet of future fame , that , though he retired to ease and plenty , while he was yet little declined into the vale of years ...
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... perhaps , complication certainly , is not , from the point of view of the artist , any improvement . Perhaps not even an improvement from the point of view of the psychologist or not to the extent which we imagine ; perhaps only in the ...
... perhaps , complication certainly , is not , from the point of view of the artist , any improvement . Perhaps not even an improvement from the point of view of the psychologist or not to the extent which we imagine ; perhaps only in the ...
Contents
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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