Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American LiteratureDonald Davie's major essays on British and American writers from Chaucer to Browning. |
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... Dryden's essay . There the issues are dated in another way , more seriously ; we are bored not only by the questions them- selves , but by the way they are debated . The discussions , as Dryden presents them , are unavoidably ...
... Dryden's essay . There the issues are dated in another way , more seriously ; we are bored not only by the questions them- selves , but by the way they are debated . The discussions , as Dryden presents them , are unavoidably ...
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... Dryden had not decided what it was he sought to do . If this was to be a conversation - piece , why make the talk about literature ? Or else , if Dryden wanted to talk about liter- ature , why do so at the level of the dilettante ? As ...
... Dryden had not decided what it was he sought to do . If this was to be a conversation - piece , why make the talk about literature ? Or else , if Dryden wanted to talk about liter- ature , why do so at the level of the dilettante ? As ...
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... Dryden's Of Dramatic Poesy . E.M. W. Tillyard once made the point : ' Dryden did not reach perfection of tone at once . There is something rather set and formal about they way he treats Ancients , French , and English in the Essay of ...
... Dryden's Of Dramatic Poesy . E.M. W. Tillyard once made the point : ' Dryden did not reach perfection of tone at once . There is something rather set and formal about they way he treats Ancients , French , and English in the Essay of ...
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 |
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