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 here , if I understand him , judges that English society under Charles II just could not have nourished and sustained the genius of Shakespeare , as did the society of England under Elizabeth I and James I. And if we take that to ...
Dryden here , if I understand him , judges that English society under Charles II just could not have nourished and sustained the genius of Shakespeare , as did the society of England under Elizabeth I and James I. And if we take that to ...
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The Church of England is the national Church ; that is what is meant by calling it the Established Church . By maintaining the strenuous and transparent fiction that the religious community is coterminous with the national community ...
The Church of England is the national Church ; that is what is meant by calling it the Established Church . By maintaining the strenuous and transparent fiction that the religious community is coterminous with the national community ...
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But what is remarkable is that the Oxford lexicographers offer it as the sense still current in England at the present day . It is striking evidence of how ' the Enlightenment ' , a concept and a category still honorific in foreign ...
But what is remarkable is that the Oxford lexicographers offer it as the sense still current in England at the present day . It is striking evidence of how ' the Enlightenment ' , a concept and a category still honorific in foreign ...
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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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| 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 |
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