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Page 130
But of course , even if literature is a province of rhetoric , not essentially of logic or dialectic , there is abundant ancient precedent for not absolving the rhetorician , however brilliant and resourceful he may be ...
But of course , even if literature is a province of rhetoric , not essentially of logic or dialectic , there is abundant ancient precedent for not absolving the rhetorician , however brilliant and resourceful he may be ...
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And yet the birth was at Christmas in the depth of winter , when the pow'rs of darkness ' ( Satan of course but also the long nights and short days of December ) are ' Taken at their utmost gloom . ' With ' Nature's decorations glisten ...
And yet the birth was at Christmas in the depth of winter , when the pow'rs of darkness ' ( Satan of course but also the long nights and short days of December ) are ' Taken at their utmost gloom . ' With ' Nature's decorations glisten ...
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... will fail to recognize what a contribution to the total effect is made by the ' unpoetic ' lines , ' And chiefly of the veils , that from her brow ' , or ( more piercingly , of course ) ' But for her eyes I should have fled away ' .
... will fail to recognize what a contribution to the total effect is made by the ' unpoetic ' lines , ' And chiefly of the veils , that from her brow ' , or ( more piercingly , of course ) ' But for her eyes I should have fled away ' .
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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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