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One further example : lines 132-3 : And as the Isakells in a winters day When as the soonn shines with unwounted warme , ... If Ralegh was thinking of the poem as written in quatrains ( as he surely was , despite occasional five - line ...
One further example : lines 132-3 : And as the Isakells in a winters day When as the soonn shines with unwounted warme , ... If Ralegh was thinking of the poem as written in quatrains ( as he surely was , despite occasional five - line ...
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One example out of many is PM 2.63 , written in 1704 : Oh that I was the Bird of Paradise ! Then in thy Nutmeg Garden , Lord , thy Bower Celestiall Musick blossom should my voice Enchanted with thy gardens aire and flower .
One example out of many is PM 2.63 , written in 1704 : Oh that I was the Bird of Paradise ! Then in thy Nutmeg Garden , Lord , thy Bower Celestiall Musick blossom should my voice Enchanted with thy gardens aire and flower .
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Indeed , in the examples of ' beamy ' , ' moony ' and ' sluicy'given by Arthos , we have already seen the shift - over happening more than fifty years before , with Dryden . And an hour or so with the Oxford English Dictionary will show ...
Indeed , in the examples of ' beamy ' , ' moony ' and ' sluicy'given by Arthos , we have already seen the shift - over happening more than fifty years before , with Dryden . And an hour or so with the Oxford English Dictionary will show ...
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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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