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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... Shakespeare ; as a standard so daunting that we cannot afford to be at all constantly aware of it . Shakespeare represents , for all his successors , a vast area of the English language and the English imagination which is as it were ...
... Shakespeare ; as a standard so daunting that we cannot afford to be at all constantly aware of it . Shakespeare represents , for all his successors , a vast area of the English language and the English imagination which is as it were ...
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... Shakespeare . Most great English poets are inimitable in a way in which Dante was not . If you try to imitate Shakespeare you will certainly produce a series of stilted , forced , and violent distortions of language . The lan- guage of ...
... Shakespeare . Most great English poets are inimitable in a way in which Dante was not . If you try to imitate Shakespeare you will certainly produce a series of stilted , forced , and violent distortions of language . The lan- guage of ...
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... Shakespeare as representing an organic and mutually enhancing rela- tion between the arts and society , such as we do not have and cannot hope for . In this wistful sense Shakespeare is indeed continually before us as an example of what ...
... Shakespeare as representing an organic and mutually enhancing rela- tion between the arts and society , such as we do not have and cannot hope for . In this wistful sense Shakespeare is indeed continually before us as an example of what ...
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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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