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 63
... things " . Clearly the standards of contemporaries cannot be binding on us , even if we could reconstruct them and find a common lowest denominator among their diversities . Nor can we simply divest ourselves of our individuality or the ...
... things " . Clearly the standards of contemporaries cannot be binding on us , even if we could reconstruct them and find a common lowest denominator among their diversities . Nor can we simply divest ourselves of our individuality or the ...
Page 228
... things must be apprehended as they are , in their true unique individuality , and their individuality is blurred ... things . As he wrote in his 1855 Preface : “ As the attributes of the poet of the kosmos concentre in the real body and ...
... things must be apprehended as they are , in their true unique individuality , and their individuality is blurred ... things . As he wrote in his 1855 Preface : “ As the attributes of the poet of the kosmos concentre in the real body and ...
Page 235
... things is again and again spoilt , so to speak , by a disquieting sense of the purposelessness and meaninglessness of the world , in The Passing Freight for instance in which the disillusioned poet dejectedly meditates on the passage of ...
... things is again and again spoilt , so to speak , by a disquieting sense of the purposelessness and meaninglessness of the world , in The Passing Freight for instance in which the disillusioned poet dejectedly meditates on the passage of ...
Contents
Switzerland and the EnglishSpeaking World | 13 |
The Style of Criticism | 29 |
The Novelist and the Narrator | 43 |
Copyright | |
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