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... learned language . " Given the magnitude of his task and the impossibility of total perfection , the humanist scholar must , of course , spe- cialize and his works will often be esoteric . But the belief persists that somehow ...
... learned language . " Given the magnitude of his task and the impossibility of total perfection , the humanist scholar must , of course , spe- cialize and his works will often be esoteric . But the belief persists that somehow ...
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... learned journals in the 1930's , 1940's , and 1950's . W. Powell Jones's biographical study , Thomas Gray Scholar , appeared in 1937. ( The definitive biogra- phy is , however , by an Englishman , R. W. Ketton - Cremer , Thomas Gray : A ...
... learned journals in the 1930's , 1940's , and 1950's . W. Powell Jones's biographical study , Thomas Gray Scholar , appeared in 1937. ( The definitive biogra- phy is , however , by an Englishman , R. W. Ketton - Cremer , Thomas Gray : A ...
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... learned book A Read- ing of George Herbert ( 1953 ) , takes sharp issue with the English critic William Empson as well as with certain Amer- ican New Critics on the interpretation of some of Herbert's poems , basing her arguments on her ...
... learned book A Read- ing of George Herbert ( 1953 ) , takes sharp issue with the English critic William Empson as well as with certain Amer- ican New Critics on the interpretation of some of Herbert's poems , basing her arguments on her ...
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