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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... ( London , 1916 ) , p.127 . Kenneth Maclean , ' William Cowper ' , in F. W. Hilles ( ed . ) , The Age of Johnson . Essays Presented to Chauncey Brewster Tinker ( New Haven & London , 1949 ) . instance , that an allegedly depleted or ...
... ( London , 1916 ) , p.127 . Kenneth Maclean , ' William Cowper ' , in F. W. Hilles ( ed . ) , The Age of Johnson . Essays Presented to Chauncey Brewster Tinker ( New Haven & London , 1949 ) . instance , that an allegedly depleted or ...
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... London , 1966 ) , p.182 . All subsequent references to the Siberian Journal are to this edition . 2 See Sanford H. Bederman , The Ethnological Contributions of John Ledyard ( Atlanta , 1964 ) . 3 It is odd that Burney in 1819 could ...
... London , 1966 ) , p.182 . All subsequent references to the Siberian Journal are to this edition . 2 See Sanford H. Bederman , The Ethnological Contributions of John Ledyard ( Atlanta , 1964 ) . 3 It is odd that Burney in 1819 could ...
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... ( London , 11. 61-2 ) Adams begins : " The answer to the question in the motto ... ' And this prepares us for the Section to stay quite close to Johnson . So it does , in a curious way ; when Adams says , ' Consider the story of the ...
... ( London , 11. 61-2 ) Adams begins : " The answer to the question in the motto ... ' And this prepares us for the Section to stay quite close to Johnson . So it does , in a curious way ; when Adams says , ' Consider the story of the ...
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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