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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... distinction of this passage , in all which concerns the manipulation of syntax ( and the syntax is profoundly important ) is thoroughly a narrative distinction . The language is deployed , just as the episodes are in a story , so as ...
... distinction of this passage , in all which concerns the manipulation of syntax ( and the syntax is profoundly important ) is thoroughly a narrative distinction . The language is deployed , just as the episodes are in a story , so as ...
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... distinction elaborated on , a powerful suspense would have been built up . Instead the narrative run is halted while the distinction is laboriously made in a parenthesis which has all the distracting inertness of a footnote . It's ...
... distinction elaborated on , a powerful suspense would have been built up . Instead the narrative run is halted while the distinction is laboriously made in a parenthesis which has all the distracting inertness of a footnote . It's ...
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... distinction between ' spirituous ' and ' spiritual ' was unthinkable for the eight- eenth century , as this passage of Mandeville shows . It is a distinction – not a very efficient one - designed to cope with the awkwardness of using ...
... distinction between ' spirituous ' and ' spiritual ' was unthinkable for the eight- eenth century , as this passage of Mandeville shows . It is a distinction – not a very efficient one - designed to cope with the awkwardness of using ...
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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