Essays on English and American Literature, and a Sheaf of Poems: Offered to David Wilkinson on the Occasion of His Retirement from the Chair of English Literature in the University of GroningenJan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, David Robert McIntyre Wilkinson, J. v. d Vriesenaerde Rodopi, 1987 - 241 страници |
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ROBERT FRIEND A Sheaf for David Wilkinson | 75 |
Strange Syzygy | 101 |
RICHARD RULAND Kate Chopin and The Awakening | 119 |
JAN VERLEUN Conrads Modernity and Humanity | 131 |
JEREMY HOOKER Master of the Leaping Figures | 141 |
A Tale of Dragons | 151 |
ELIZABETH WALTHEER Geoffrey Hills Critical Nostalgia | 165 |
TJEBBE WESTENDORP How Pleasant to Meet Mr Eliot | 173 |
A Bibliographical Checklist | 192 |
A CounterIntroduction | 223 |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES | 235 |
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Страница 173 - How unpleasant to meet Mr Eliot! With his features of clerical cut, And his brow so grim And his mouth so prim And his conversation, so nicely Restricted to What Precisely And If and Perhaps and But.
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Страница 87 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings; for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
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