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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... object , ( b ) the object of the energy . Here what is spoken of is love ( a ) , the energy , for the most part ; but ' the vestal fire ' suggests Elizabeth , the object , love ( b ) . One of the neatest plays on the pun is A springe of ...
... object , ( b ) the object of the energy . Here what is spoken of is love ( a ) , the energy , for the most part ; but ' the vestal fire ' suggests Elizabeth , the object , love ( b ) . One of the neatest plays on the pun is A springe of ...
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... object , played against love as the object drawing the energy , is in lines 37 to 44. Line 37 represents the first of those abrupt transitions which distinguish the whole poem . This is a transition from the hopeless unhappiness and ...
... object , played against love as the object drawing the energy , is in lines 37 to 44. Line 37 represents the first of those abrupt transitions which distinguish the whole poem . This is a transition from the hopeless unhappiness and ...
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Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature Donald Davie. object , but the sign of a total or concrete experience ( E ) . The error arises because of the assumption that the abstraction is from objects , instead of from ...
Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature Donald Davie. object , but the sign of a total or concrete experience ( E ) . The error arises because of the assumption that the abstraction is from objects , instead of from ...
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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