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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 Devlin is right when he says of this work that ' its main interest lies in ...
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 Devlin is right when he says of this work that ' its main interest lies in ...
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But they held by it , or they hold by it , only as a pious hope ; 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 .
But they held by it , or they hold by it , only as a pious hope ; 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 .
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One interesting thing about both the poets just proposed as furnishing 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 ...
One interesting thing about both the poets just proposed as furnishing 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 ...
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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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