The common pursuit
1952, First Edition. London : Chatto & Windus. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Cloth of spine sun-toned. Previous owner's signature to end paper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #479896
Physical description; 307 pages 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Mr Eliot and Milton -- In defence of Milton -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The irony of Swift -- 'The Dunciad' -- Johnson and Augustanism -- Johnson as poet -- Tragedy and the 'medium' -- Diabolic intellect and the noble hero -- 'Measure for measure' -- The criticism of Shakespeare's late plays -- Literature and society -- Sociology and literature -- Bunyan through modern eyes -- Literary criticism and philosophy -- Henry James and the function of criticism -- The wild, untutored Phoenix -- Mr Eliot, Mr Wyndham Lewis and Lawrence -- The logic of Christian discrimination -- Keynes, Lawrence and Cambridge -- E.M. Forster -- Approaches to T.S. Eliot -- The progress of Poesy. Subjects; Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888-1965. Milton, John 1608-1674. Hopkins, Gerard Manley 1844-1889. Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745. Pope, Alexander 1688-1744 The dunciad. Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Measure for measure. James, Henry 1843-1916. Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) 1885-1930. Keynes, John Maynard 1883-1946. Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) 1879-1970. English literature History and criticism.
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