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This sounds like a truism ; and yet the modern critic sometimes tends to forget that both Manzoni and Dante were great artists ... mastery of his means of expression , resting upon a background of endless self - criticism and research .
This sounds like a truism ; and yet the modern critic sometimes tends to forget that both Manzoni and Dante were great artists ... mastery of his means of expression , resting upon a background of endless self - criticism and research .
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We cannot live by images such as that I have just quoted from Tennyson ; if I may use the words of another Victorian about whom I have said a hard thing , poetry is nothing if it is not a criticism of life ; and Wordsworth is greater ...
We cannot live by images such as that I have just quoted from Tennyson ; if I may use the words of another Victorian about whom I have said a hard thing , poetry is nothing if it is not a criticism of life ; and Wordsworth is greater ...
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He rarely allowed himself such criticism , and , when he did , he made it in the kindliest possible terms . He was a man com- pletely without bitterness . Cook was blessed with a natural gaiety and an aptitude for fun .
He rarely allowed himself such criticism , and , when he did , he made it in the kindliest possible terms . He was a man com- pletely without bitterness . Cook was blessed with a natural gaiety and an aptitude for fun .
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Contents
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir H I Bell | 15 |
ALESSANDRO MANZONI Italian Lecture By A P dEntrèves | 23 |
MORAL PRINCIPLES AND INDUCTIVE POLICIES Philosophical | 51 |
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| Title | Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 36 Proceedings of the British Academy, British Academy |
| Author | British Academy |
| Publisher | British Academy |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 25 Nov 2009 |
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