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Tag: the body

219. (Marcel Proust)

The last volume of Proust’s great novel is, from the sado-masochistic fantasies of Baron de Charlus in the first half, … More

Proust, the body

218. (William Wordsworth)

Perverse as it is to redefine words against conventional meanings, it is nonetheless possible to loosen from conventional meanings an … More

Christopher Ricks, Poetry, Romantic Poetry, the body, Wordsworth

214. (T.S. Eliot)

When someone says that something possesses the quality of the literary, or refers to the literary or even artistic imagination, … More

Criticism, Donald Davie, T.S. Eliot, tact, the body

211. (Percy Shelley)

Shelley’s poetry has challenged some of the finest critics, and even Hazlitt, who stands opposed to Shelley’s most notable detractors, … More

Christopher Ricks, Donald Davie, Poetry, Romanticism, Shelley, tact, the body

210. (Thomas Hobbes)

It’s often said that Leviathan has the excellence of great literature, that it is one of the finest prose works … More

tact, the body, Thomas Hobbes
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