Essays of Four Decades, Volume 10This classic collection of nearly fifty essays by one of the century's most acclaimed poets and literary critics speaks poignantly to the concerns of today's students, teachers, and general literature readers alike. It covers the broad sweep of Tate's critical concerns: poetry, poets, fiction, the imagination, language, literature, and culture. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... essay I had been reading Dante for some years and it seemed inevitable that I should go to work on Donne with the Fourfold System , if only to see whether it could show me things in Donne that I had not seen before . I think it did ...
... essay I had been reading Dante for some years and it seemed inevitable that I should go to work on Donne with the Fourfold System , if only to see whether it could show me things in Donne that I had not seen before . I think it did ...
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... essay , which this essay largely is , of another sort . With some propriety we might call it an actual world , which resembles other worlds equally actual , like The Hovering Fly 119.
... essay , which this essay largely is , of another sort . With some propriety we might call it an actual world , which resembles other worlds equally actual , like The Hovering Fly 119.
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... essay on this topic which had a little notoriety in 1930. Many of the pieces are controversial ( or were ) ; the controversies of twenty or even five years ago turn into private history , of little interest to any public . The earliest ...
... essay on this topic which had a little notoriety in 1930. Many of the pieces are controversial ( or were ) ; the controversies of twenty or even five years ago turn into private history , of little interest to any public . The earliest ...
Contents
To Whom Is the Poet Responsible? | 17 |
Is Literary Criticism Possible? ვი | 30 |
The Function of the Critical Quarterly | 45 |
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