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... mechanical or connotes squalor , but simply because it is particular ; hearing the generality of Augustan diction thus jarred upon , we are made unusually aware of how powerfully a sustained generality of diction may work upon us .
... mechanical or connotes squalor , but simply because it is particular ; hearing the generality of Augustan diction thus jarred upon , we are made unusually aware of how powerfully a sustained generality of diction may work upon us .
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313-34 ) a The diction is very stilted . Modern prejudices in favour of the colloquial will prompt us to say that the language is at no point in touch with spoken usage . But this is plainly untrue : ' I see the lords of human kind pass ...
313-34 ) a The diction is very stilted . Modern prejudices in favour of the colloquial will prompt us to say that the language is at no point in touch with spoken usage . But this is plainly untrue : ' I see the lords of human kind pass ...
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( Letters , III , 13 ) A critic who sees in poetic diction no more than a ' certain traditional decorum of language , a necessary convention ( and a necessarily changing one ) about the use of words in poetry ' , 2 will be at a loss to ...
( Letters , III , 13 ) A critic who sees in poetic diction no more than a ' certain traditional decorum of language , a necessary convention ( and a necessarily changing one ) about the use of words in poetry ' , 2 will be at a loss to ...
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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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