Explication as Criticism: Selected Papers from the English Institute 1941–1952 9780231881968

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Table of contents :
Foreword
Contents
Explication as Criticism
Idiom of Popular Poetry in the Miller’s Tale
Troilus and Cressida: Music for the Play
Macbeth as the Imitation of an Action
Literary Criticism: Marvell’s “Horatian Ode”
John Milton
Blake; the Historical Approach
Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”
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