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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... diction thus jarred upon , we are made unusually aware of how powerfully a sustained generality of diction may work upon us . On the other hand , it is also plain from this example that the symmetry of rhyme ( in Goldsmith , alternately ...
... diction thus jarred upon , we are made unusually aware of how powerfully a sustained generality of diction may work upon us . On the other hand , it is also plain from this example that the symmetry of rhyme ( in Goldsmith , alternately ...
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... diction has a force that depends on the level in the preceding lines having been pitched so high . A more ' natural ' idiom could not make the point with such economy . The panegyric is keyed so high , and the diction is so fulsome ...
... diction has a force that depends on the level in the preceding lines having been pitched so high . A more ' natural ' idiom could not make the point with such economy . The panegyric is keyed so high , and the diction is so fulsome ...
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... 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 understand how the purity of such a diction can be ...
... 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 understand how the purity of such a diction can be ...
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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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