English Studies Today, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English language The 1st series consists of papers read at the International Conference of University Professors of English held at magdalen college in 1950; 2d- series consists of lectures and papers read at the 4th- conferences of the International Association of University Professors of English held in 1959- |
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Page 137
... achieve than in action . He seeks consolation in the survival of his fame , and this is expressed in magnificent lines . But the Ghost interferes with a brutal injunction : he must not indulge in self - pity , he must forgive his ...
... achieve than in action . He seeks consolation in the survival of his fame , and this is expressed in magnificent lines . But the Ghost interferes with a brutal injunction : he must not indulge in self - pity , he must forgive his ...
Page 227
... achieve such effects he often introduces foreign ( or supposedly foreign ) words or odd pieces of verbal pedantry that are likely to make the modern reader wince . But when he allows the feeling to work itself up in a grad- ual ...
... achieve such effects he often introduces foreign ( or supposedly foreign ) words or odd pieces of verbal pedantry that are likely to make the modern reader wince . But when he allows the feeling to work itself up in a grad- ual ...
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... achieve truly in- ward knowledge of others . The polarity of the self and others is always present in Whitman , present as a challenge and a paradox . “ The most affluent man ” , he wrote , " is he that confronts all the shows he sees ...
... achieve truly in- ward knowledge of others . The polarity of the self and others is always present in Whitman , present as a challenge and a paradox . “ The most affluent man ” , he wrote , " is he that confronts all the shows he sees ...
Contents
Switzerland and the EnglishSpeaking World | 13 |
The Style of Criticism | 29 |
The Novelist and the Narrator | 43 |
Copyright | |
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