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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... figure of speech , not a figure of thought . Here is certainly a con- traction not in the field of metaphor , but in man's notions of its 1 For the meaning of ' germens ' see Walter C. Curry , Shakespeare's Philosophical Patterns ...
... figure of speech , not a figure of thought . Here is certainly a con- traction not in the field of metaphor , but in man's notions of its 1 For the meaning of ' germens ' see Walter C. Curry , Shakespeare's Philosophical Patterns ...
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... figure of David , shepherd- king and warrior - psalmist of ancient Israel , could not fail to loom behind , and to transfigure , the image of any king whom they knew or knew about . The myth of kingship was for them underpinned by ...
... figure of David , shepherd- king and warrior - psalmist of ancient Israel , could not fail to loom behind , and to transfigure , the image of any king whom they knew or knew about . The myth of kingship was for them underpinned by ...
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... figure ' . But Bateson's treatment of it goes all the other way , towards recognizing that on the contrary personifi- cation is inherent in the very grammatical structure of our language , hence that we ' personify ' when we're not ...
... figure ' . But Bateson's treatment of it goes all the other way , towards recognizing that on the contrary personifi- cation is inherent in the very grammatical structure of our language , hence that we ' personify ' when we're not ...
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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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