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And the experience in Horace is surprising and furnishes the fulcrum on which the poem turns . 1 Cunningham's point is that in Marvell's poem the experience is not surprising and does not provide a fulcrum ; because it isn't that kind ...
And the experience in Horace is surprising and furnishes the fulcrum on which the poem turns . 1 Cunningham's point is that in Marvell's poem the experience is not surprising and does not provide a fulcrum ; because it isn't that kind ...
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Cunningham comments on this passage very justly , ' ' What we call aesthetic experience is for Aristotle substantially the experience of inferring . ' This is true of Wordsworth also , and this is the pleasurable experience he gave to a ...
Cunningham comments on this passage very justly , ' ' What we call aesthetic experience is for Aristotle substantially the experience of inferring . ' This is true of Wordsworth also , and this is the pleasurable experience he gave to a ...
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On the contrary , we are invited to think , wisdom and passionate experience in poetry are often to be apprehended as an effect dryly conclusive , mournful or sardonic , closed . It is what I have always hankered after , and reached for ...
On the contrary , we are invited to think , wisdom and passionate experience in poetry are often to be apprehended as an effect dryly conclusive , mournful or sardonic , closed . It is what I have always hankered after , and reached for ...
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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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