Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American LiteratureTo mark his seventieth birthday, Continuum published some of the critical writings of the man whom the London Times hailed as, "the preeminent English poet-critic of our time". |
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Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature Donald Davie. 8 The Language of Science and the Language of Literature , 1700-1740 1 It is generally agreed that in the first half of the eighteenth century , there is an ...
Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature Donald Davie. 8 The Language of Science and the Language of Literature , 1700-1740 1 It is generally agreed that in the first half of the eighteenth century , there is an ...
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... literature sel- dom ask these questions , let alone answer them . The questions crop up only when , as too seldom happens , we try to see our native literature in the context of foreign literatures ; for then we discover that , in any ...
... literature sel- dom ask these questions , let alone answer them . The questions crop up only when , as too seldom happens , we try to see our native literature in the context of foreign literatures ; for then we discover that , in any ...
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... literature as in important ways distinct from English - speaking literature generally . For the plain fact is that a distinctively American literature has no historical exis- tence before Romanticism ; and so , although Irving Babbitt ...
... literature as in important ways distinct from English - speaking literature generally . For the plain fact is that a distinctively American literature has no historical exis- tence before Romanticism ; and so , although Irving Babbitt ...
Contents
Contents 1 Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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