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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... 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 stanzas ...
... 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 stanzas ...
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... example that springs to mind is the justly well - loved , intricate and tender occasional poem , ' Upon a Wasp Child with Cold ' . But the same extraordinary sympathy for non - human crea- tures – insects and birds and even vegetable ...
... example that springs to mind is the justly well - loved , intricate and tender occasional poem , ' Upon a Wasp Child with Cold ' . But the same extraordinary sympathy for non - human crea- tures – insects and birds and even vegetable ...
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... examples of ' beamy ' , ' moony ' and ' sluicy ' given by Arthos , we have already seen the shift - over happen- ing ... example given by the OED of a figurative sense ( that is , of the sense we give ― - it today ) is John Galt's Entail ...
... examples of ' beamy ' , ' moony ' and ' sluicy ' given by Arthos , we have already seen the shift - over happen- ing ... example given by the OED of a figurative sense ( that is , of the sense we give ― - it today ) is John Galt's Entail ...
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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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