Essays, Literary & EducationalChatto & Windus, 1962 - 223 pages |
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Page 81
... Dryden . And though Edith Sitwell is a good critic in her very individual way , she is not at all like Dryden . So Saintsbury has not characterised Dryden very sharply . W. P. Ker wrote more precisely : Dryden's power as a writer of ...
... Dryden . And though Edith Sitwell is a good critic in her very individual way , she is not at all like Dryden . So Saintsbury has not characterised Dryden very sharply . W. P. Ker wrote more precisely : Dryden's power as a writer of ...
Page 85
... Dryden may be unfair here to Racine , but , if so , it is not the critical tone that is wrong but the criticism itself . There was another reason than Descartes why Dryden should have been able to speak in one and the same tone of ...
... Dryden may be unfair here to Racine , but , if so , it is not the critical tone that is wrong but the criticism itself . There was another reason than Descartes why Dryden should have been able to speak in one and the same tone of ...
Page 87
... Dryden enjoyed and of his own incomparably fresh and inquiring critical spirit . But , the reader may ask , was Dryden being original ? Have not Saintsbury and Ker told us that Dryden's three long essays , on satire , on painting and ...
... Dryden enjoyed and of his own incomparably fresh and inquiring critical spirit . But , the reader may ask , was Dryden being original ? Have not Saintsbury and Ker told us that Dryden's three long essays , on satire , on painting and ...
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
EDUCATIONAL | 13 |
Two ways of Learning 1954 | 185 |
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