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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First , three images , of the slain but stirring body , of the wintry earth , and of the waterwheel , are presented as it were in parallel , each paralleling both the others but parallel also to an image from the previous sentence ...
First , three images , of the slain but stirring body , of the wintry earth , and of the waterwheel , are presented as it were in parallel , each paralleling both the others but parallel also to an image from the previous sentence ...
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that he almost seems to fall , sometimes , into the opposite error from our own , and to regard the analogy between human and political body not as just a manner of speaking , nor even as a manner of thinking , but as a provable fact ...
that he almost seems to fall , sometimes , into the opposite error from our own , and to regard the analogy between human and political body not as just a manner of speaking , nor even as a manner of thinking , but as a provable fact ...
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That in some Countries , Men are more generally lavish than in others , proceeds from the difference in Circumstances that dispose to either Vice , and arise from the Condition of the Social Body as well as the Temperament of the ...
That in some Countries , Men are more generally lavish than in others , proceeds from the difference in Circumstances that dispose to either Vice , and arise from the Condition of the Social Body as well as the Temperament of the ...
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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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