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1 While Mandeville may no longer believe in this complicated classification , his talk of ' Auids ' and ' spirits ' shows him still thinking in Elizabethan terms . And indeed his contemporary John Locke still speaks of the animal ...
1 While Mandeville may no longer believe in this complicated classification , his talk of ' Auids ' and ' spirits ' shows him still thinking in Elizabethan terms . And indeed his contemporary John Locke still speaks of the animal ...
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We have to believe this if we hold it as an act of faith that muddle is worse than clarity . ( Not all poets and readers of poetry do hold this some will explicitly prefer a warm damp muddle to a hard dry clarity ; and to them I have ...
We have to believe this if we hold it as an act of faith that muddle is worse than clarity . ( Not all poets and readers of poetry do hold this some will explicitly prefer a warm damp muddle to a hard dry clarity ; and to them I have ...
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If we hear it in this way , we can hardly believe what the verses say . And we shall prefer to believe other , more honest poems , which seem to say that it makes next to no difference ...
If we hear it in this way , we can hardly believe what the verses say . And we shall prefer to believe other , more honest poems , which seem to say that it makes next to no difference ...
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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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