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Here , by the enlivening use of a curious English idiom - ' the dead nettle ' , used of a kind of nettle which is perfectly alive - Eliot plays upon the paradox that death resembles life . And the image which makes of the truly dead ...
Here , by the enlivening use of a curious English idiom - ' the dead nettle ' , used of a kind of nettle which is perfectly alive - Eliot plays upon the paradox that death resembles life . And the image which makes of the truly dead ...
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Such enactment cannot take place , since Milton no more than anyone else can explain how Death takes ' horrid strides ' when it isn't clear whether Death has legs . What's most noticeable , however , is how Milton does not avail himself ...
Such enactment cannot take place , since Milton no more than anyone else can explain how Death takes ' horrid strides ' when it isn't clear whether Death has legs . What's most noticeable , however , is how Milton does not avail himself ...
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The boy who called to the owls died young , but there is no implication that this was cause for sorrow , any more than the death of Lucy : Thus Nature spake – The work was done – How soon my Lucy's race was run !
The boy who called to the owls died young , but there is no implication that this was cause for sorrow , any more than the death of Lucy : Thus Nature spake – The work was done – How soon my Lucy's race was run !
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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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