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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... expressing his disappointment that Samuel Clarke had refused to be drawn into discussion of that work : That an ... expression – it leads us to his ethics . - 1 Benjamin Rand , Berkeley and Percival ( Cambridge , 1914 ) , p.94 . No ...
... expressing his disappointment that Samuel Clarke had refused to be drawn into discussion of that work : That an ... expression – it leads us to his ethics . - 1 Benjamin Rand , Berkeley and Percival ( Cambridge , 1914 ) , p.94 . No ...
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... expression . ' Compact- ness ' is Cowper's word , and we do well to adopt it instead of ' con- centration ' , which is more familiar . Concentration of expression is a form of words which we commonly use when meanings lie one upon ...
... expression . ' Compact- ness ' is Cowper's word , and we do well to adopt it instead of ' con- centration ' , which is more familiar . Concentration of expression is a form of words which we commonly use when meanings lie one upon ...
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... expression disappeared from our criticism , but I do not see what other expression has taken its place . And it puzzles me how we manage without it , or something like it , except by growing blind to that range of poetic effects which ...
... expression disappeared from our criticism , but I do not see what other expression has taken its place . And it puzzles me how we manage without it , or something like it , except by growing blind to that range of poetic effects which ...
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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