Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American LiteratureDonald Davie's major essays on British and American writers from Chaucer to Browning. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 39
Page 72
questions presented themselves to Dryden ; but he chose to present them to his reader in a way that drained them of all this vitality . One begins to think that Dryden had not decided what it was he sought to do .
questions presented themselves to Dryden ; but he chose to present them to his reader in a way that drained them of all this vitality . One begins to think that Dryden had not decided what it was he sought to do .
Page 77
This is its appeal in the convention of the conversation - piece , which here , perhaps because this is Dryden speaking , is suddenly impressive . Yet in another way the passage is out of the convention altogether ; these are the facts ...
This is its appeal in the convention of the conversation - piece , which here , perhaps because this is Dryden speaking , is suddenly impressive . Yet in another way the passage is out of the convention altogether ; these are the facts ...
Page 121
There is a famous work of literature where the same thing is attempted without much success and this is Dryden's Of Dramatic Poesy . E.M.W. Tillyard once made the point : ' Dryden did not reach perfection of tone at once .
There is a famous work of literature where the same thing is attempted without much success and this is Dryden's Of Dramatic Poesy . E.M.W. Tillyard once made the point : ' Dryden did not reach perfection of tone at once .
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
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 |
Copyright | |
23 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adams admired appears argument believe Berkeley better body called century certainly comes contrary course criticism death dialogue diction distinction Dryden effect eighteenth eighteenth-century England English essay example experience expression fact feel figure follows force give hand human idea imagination important instance interest John Johnson language later laws learned least Ledyard less lines literary literature lived London look matter means metaphor mind nature never object once passage perhaps period person philosopher poem poet poetic poetry political Pope possible present principle prose question reader reason rhetoric seems seen sense Shakespeare Smart society sort speak spirit stand stanza style surely taken Taylor things thought tion tradition true turn verse whole Wordsworth writing wrote
Bibliographic information
| Title | Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Author | Donald Davie |
| Publisher | Carcanet, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 29, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0856359793, 9780856359798 |
| Length | 328 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |