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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... criticism of life that we think of as the typical poetic function . ' But of course Kenner's cross - reference to Blake's ' wiry bounding line ' suggests precisely a ' criticism of life ' , one that Blake and Pound and Arnaut concur in ...
... criticism of life that we think of as the typical poetic function . ' But of course Kenner's cross - reference to Blake's ' wiry bounding line ' suggests precisely a ' criticism of life ' , one that Blake and Pound and Arnaut concur in ...
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... criticism , not criticism at all , is not to deny , of course , that great criticism is to be found in it . There is , for instance , the examen of The Silent Woman , still an excellent introduction to a neglected play ; there are the ...
... criticism , not criticism at all , is not to deny , of course , that great criticism is to be found in it . There is , for instance , the examen of The Silent Woman , still an excellent introduction to a neglected play ; there are the ...
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... criticism involves us in the labours of the historian and the biographer , and not solely or chiefly with printed ... Critic can then polish and put into patterns . Perhaps that two - stage process really can extend our knowledge and our ...
... criticism involves us in the labours of the historian and the biographer , and not solely or chiefly with printed ... Critic can then polish and put into patterns . Perhaps that two - stage process really can extend our knowledge and our ...
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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