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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... body , of the wintry earth , and of the waterwheel , are presented as it were in parallel , each paralleling both ... body is brutal ; the lamb has life before it , the corpse has life behind it ; and the images are ranged on a scale ...
... body , of the wintry earth , and of the waterwheel , are presented as it were in parallel , each paralleling both ... body is brutal ; the lamb has life before it , the corpse has life behind it ; and the images are ranged on a scale ...
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... body not as just a manner of speaking , nor even as a manner of thinking , but as a provable fact , on which arguments may be based . If we ask how the eighteenth century used these metaphors , we should by now be prepared for the ...
... body not as just a manner of speaking , nor even as a manner of thinking , but as a provable fact , on which arguments may be based . If we ask how the eighteenth century used these metaphors , we should by now be prepared for the ...
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... Body as well as the Temperament of the Natural ... 1 Here Mandeville can adapt or translate into his own materialistic terms a metaphor even more ancient in political thought than that of ' the body politic ' - the image of the Wheel of ...
... Body as well as the Temperament of the Natural ... 1 Here Mandeville can adapt or translate into his own materialistic terms a metaphor even more ancient in political thought than that of ' the body politic ' - the image of the Wheel of ...
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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