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Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature Donald Davie. 13 Christopher Smart : Some Neglected Poems Smart's translations of the Psalms do not constitute one of his main claims to fame or to our attention . And Father ...
Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature Donald Davie. 13 Christopher Smart : Some Neglected Poems Smart's translations of the Psalms do not constitute one of his main claims to fame or to our attention . And Father ...
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... Smart espoused it as a deliberate programme , and one which might be speedily implemented , since he believed that God had called him to implement it . Apparently he thought it quite feasible that St Paul's in London might supplant St ...
... Smart espoused it as a deliberate programme , and one which might be speedily implemented , since he believed that God had called him to implement it . Apparently he thought it quite feasible that St Paul's in London might supplant St ...
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... Smart with English precedents of a sort - Crashaw , that is , and Pope - is that they are Roman Catholics . Smart on the other hand is militantly anti - Roman , as was inevitable , given his hope that St Paul's should supplant St ...
... Smart with English precedents of a sort - Crashaw , that is , and Pope - is that they are Roman Catholics . Smart on the other hand is militantly anti - Roman , as was inevitable , given his hope that St Paul's should supplant St ...
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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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