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But , to return to ' Nature ' , Dryden's view of it appears most plainly when he defends rhyming repartee : But you tell us , this supplying the last half of a verse , or adjoining a whole second to the former , looks more like the ...
But , to return to ' Nature ' , Dryden's view of it appears most plainly when he defends rhyming repartee : But you tell us , this supplying the last half of a verse , or adjoining a whole second to the former , looks more like the ...
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The case is quite different when we are dealing with a writer whose conscious intention appears to be to refute the whole materialistic thesis . Swift is such a writer . And when we discover in him the image of the body politic and the ...
The case is quite different when we are dealing with a writer whose conscious intention appears to be to refute the whole materialistic thesis . Swift is such a writer . And when we discover in him the image of the body politic and the ...
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which appears in the passage about the battlefield . It is this , an energy of apprehension which , so far from running wild , seeks out of itself the structures to control it , which makes a piece of writing masculine or manly ...
which appears in the passage about the battlefield . It is this , an energy of apprehension which , so far from running wild , seeks out of itself the structures to control it , which makes a piece of writing masculine or manly ...
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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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