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Page 114
And for an example which will draw together as many as possible of the threads I have unravelled , I shall do better to withdraw into the period I defined . This , then , is from Berkeley again – not from the elated and innocent ...
And for an example which will draw together as many as possible of the threads I have unravelled , I shall do better to withdraw into the period I defined . This , then , is from Berkeley again – not from the elated and innocent ...
Page 246
But it is better to avoid giving any impression that great literature is a matter of detachable purple passages . On the contrary , what makes the Discourses an achievement of the literary imagination is something much more nearly ...
But it is better to avoid giving any impression that great literature is a matter of detachable purple passages . On the contrary , what makes the Discourses an achievement of the literary imagination is something much more nearly ...
Page 268
The same is true of ' Michael ' , even though the verse as such is a little better , and in particular gets off to a better start . ( At this period , Wordsworth's attempts to ' lead in ' to his subject are lamentable , and the first ...
The same is true of ' Michael ' , even though the verse as such is a little better , and in particular gets off to a better start . ( At this period , Wordsworth's attempts to ' lead in ' to his subject are lamentable , and the first ...
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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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