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As he dismisses them together here , so elsewhere he will use them together , or use one or other as he pleases , for metaphors . He can do so because for him a metaphor is merely a figure of speech , not a figure of thought .
As he dismisses them together here , so elsewhere he will use them together , or use one or other as he pleases , for metaphors . He can do so because for him a metaphor is merely a figure of speech , not a figure of thought .
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Another way of saying this is that if prosopopoeia is indeed a figure of rhetoric , then there is no way for us to use our language , however artless and unpremeditated , that is not rhetorical . And if this is so , then our common ...
Another way of saying this is that if prosopopoeia is indeed a figure of rhetoric , then there is no way for us to use our language , however artless and unpremeditated , that is not rhetorical . And if this is so , then our common ...
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Those who regard Wordsworth as a protoVictorian figure would do well to ponder this figure of Leonard Ewbank , and the doom that Wordsworth reserves for him . He has all the virtues of Smiles's self - help : independence , pride ...
Those who regard Wordsworth as a protoVictorian figure would do well to ponder this figure of Leonard Ewbank , and the doom that Wordsworth reserves for him . He has all the virtues of Smiles's self - help : independence , pride ...
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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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