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It follows from his argument that there must be something wrong with this poetry ; and since this poetry includes the poems of Alexander Pope ( to go no farther ) , this seems a very bold assumption - would certainly have seemed so ...
It follows from his argument that there must be something wrong with this poetry ; and since this poetry includes the poems of Alexander Pope ( to go no farther ) , this seems a very bold assumption - would certainly have seemed so ...
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And , he says , ' Pope gets this quality as an echo from Horace ; Horace from the Alexandrians . ' This is certainly excessive . For one thing , Pope held so far as he could by the Renaissance principle of decorum , and adjusted his ...
And , he says , ' Pope gets this quality as an echo from Horace ; Horace from the Alexandrians . ' This is certainly excessive . For one thing , Pope held so far as he could by the Renaissance principle of decorum , and adjusted his ...
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By showing that Cowper appeals to the strength of Denham ' , we place him in the tradition not of Johnson alone , but of Pope and Dryden , both of whom appealed back to Denham in the same way . In fact of course the tradition was much ...
By showing that Cowper appeals to the strength of Denham ' , we place him in the tradition not of Johnson alone , but of Pope and Dryden , both of whom appealed back to Denham in the same way . In fact of course the tradition was much ...
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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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