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Page 168
... in the earth ' is completed two stanzas later with the splendid expression ' Slept in the burial of their growth ' . Again , thou wrote them in thy page ' , which seems at first like the tired use of a stock conceit , turns out to ...
... in the earth ' is completed two stanzas later with the splendid expression ' Slept in the burial of their growth ' . Again , thou wrote them in thy page ' , which seems at first like the tired use of a stock conceit , turns out to ...
Page 215
Strength ' is a name given to a certain quality of compactness ' in expression . ' Compactness ' is Cowper's word , and we do well to adopt it instead of concentration ' , which is more familiar . Concentration of expression is a form ...
Strength ' is a name given to a certain quality of compactness ' in expression . ' Compactness ' is Cowper's word , and we do well to adopt it instead of concentration ' , which is more familiar . Concentration of expression is a form ...
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Not only has this 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 ...
Not only has this 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 ...
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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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