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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... experience ; it does not rule and direct the poem from the outset . 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 ...
... experience ; it does not rule and direct the poem from the outset . 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 ...
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... 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 reader such as De Quincey . Poetry for Wordsworth is a means of knowing the ...
... 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 reader such as De Quincey . Poetry for Wordsworth is a means of knowing the ...
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... experience ' , accumulated ' at the price sometimes of our fortunes , of our health , and of our peace . ' This is what composition by way of improvisation can never attain to . On the contrary , we are invited to think , wisdom and ...
... experience ' , accumulated ' at the price sometimes of our fortunes , of our health , and of our peace . ' This is what composition by way of improvisation can never attain to . On the contrary , we are invited to think , wisdom and ...
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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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