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It seems something more than paradox if one argues as follows : human nature is a part of ' Nature ' , and indeed a specially important part , since man has potentialities , for good and evil , beyond any other creature ; it follows ...
It seems something more than paradox if one argues as follows : human nature is a part of ' Nature ' , and indeed a specially important part , since man has potentialities , for good and evil , beyond any other creature ; it follows ...
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The argument of this massive and learned study is summarized as follows ( p.88 ) : It may very well be that many poets ... Scientific writing required a set vocabulary formed according to set principles , and it must therefore follow ...
The argument of this massive and learned study is summarized as follows ( p.88 ) : It may very well be that many poets ... Scientific writing required a set vocabulary formed according to set principles , and it must therefore follow ...
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If we follow the clue provided by Mallarmé , his reminder that poetry is made not of ideas but of words , we see the ... It follows perhaps that the poet is less interested than the prose writer in the ' stability ' of the language he ...
If we follow the clue provided by Mallarmé , his reminder that poetry is made not of ideas but of words , we see the ... It follows perhaps that the poet is less interested than the prose writer in the ' stability ' of the language he ...
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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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