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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... death resembles life . And the image which makes of the truly dead because unflowering thing a thrusting weed - this muddles us even further about where life ends and death begins . Add to this the traditional associations of the nettle ...
... death resembles life . And the image which makes of the truly dead because unflowering thing a thrusting weed - this muddles us even further about where life ends and death begins . Add to this the traditional associations of the nettle ...
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... Death's moving , as Spenser enacts in a slightly later stanza the wreathing leap of his dragon on to the knight's shield . Such enactment cannot take place , since Milton no more than anyone else can explain how Death takes ' horrid ...
... Death's moving , as Spenser enacts in a slightly later stanza the wreathing leap of his dragon on to the knight's shield . Such enactment cannot take place , since Milton no more than anyone else can explain how Death takes ' horrid ...
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... death , being by the reader contemplated objectively , flashes upon us the tenderest images of death . Death and its sunny antipole are forced into connexion . 1 This account of ' We are Seven ' is just , and central to my argument ...
... death , being by the reader contemplated objectively , flashes upon us the tenderest images of death . Death and its sunny antipole are forced into connexion . 1 This account of ' We are Seven ' is just , and central to my argument ...
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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