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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... admired paintings by Titian , Guido Reni , Correggio , and others , is merely an extreme case . Only a trained habit of visualizing on the part of the reader , along with an admiration for paintings and statuary significantly different ...
... admired paintings by Titian , Guido Reni , Correggio , and others , is merely an extreme case . Only a trained habit of visualizing on the part of the reader , along with an admiration for paintings and statuary significantly different ...
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... admired in Pope , will account my translation in those particulars defective . But I comfort myself with the thought , that in reality it is no defect , on the contrary that the want of all such embellish- ments as do not belong to the ...
... admired in Pope , will account my translation in those particulars defective . But I comfort myself with the thought , that in reality it is no defect , on the contrary that the want of all such embellish- ments as do not belong to the ...
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... admired : His reputation as an author , who , with much labour indeed , but with admirable success , has embellished all his poems with the most charming ease , stood unshaken ' till Johnson thrust his head against it . And how does he ...
... admired : His reputation as an author , who , with much labour indeed , but with admirable success , has embellished all his poems with the most charming ease , stood unshaken ' till Johnson thrust his head against it . And how does he ...
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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