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6 Edward Taylor and Isaac Watts I am very well aware of , and I appreciate very much , the charming anomaly by which , to inaugurate this series of essays to commemorate the Bicentary , the sponsors have invited me , who am not a ...
6 Edward Taylor and Isaac Watts I am very well aware of , and I appreciate very much , the charming anomaly by which , to inaugurate this series of essays to commemorate the Bicentary , the sponsors have invited me , who am not a ...
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The same wit , deliberately subdued in the same way , is to be found in Watts's great contemporaries , Dryden and Pope ; and much might be made of the fact that Taylor left England in 1668 , just before the great genius of Dryden had ...
The same wit , deliberately subdued in the same way , is to be found in Watts's great contemporaries , Dryden and Pope ; and much might be made of the fact that Taylor left England in 1668 , just before the great genius of Dryden had ...
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One wonders what Taylor's relations with his fellows were , in the Westfield church , and whether indeed there was anyone there whom he would recognize as ' a fellow ' . One recalls him writing to Samuel Sewall in 1696 about the Foggy ...
One wonders what Taylor's relations with his fellows were , in the Westfield church , and whether indeed there was anyone there whom he would recognize as ' a fellow ' . One recalls him writing to Samuel Sewall in 1696 about the Foggy ...
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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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