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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... ideas about ' whether intentional or not ' ) . And he will be grateful to have his attention returned to the astonishing ... idea expressed or hinted at in “ Do then by dying what life cannot do ” . But what will our reader make of the ...
... ideas about ' whether intentional or not ' ) . And he will be grateful to have his attention returned to the astonishing ... idea expressed or hinted at in “ Do then by dying what life cannot do ” . But what will our reader make of the ...
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... idea of ' elevation ' , arguing that since it's good for an author to have elevated thoughts and style , it is to his advantage to live in a garret , at the top of a house . But the centrally important point remains ; that the new ...
... idea of ' elevation ' , arguing that since it's good for an author to have elevated thoughts and style , it is to his advantage to live in a garret , at the top of a house . But the centrally important point remains ; that the new ...
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... idea which now seems so undeniably quaint – the idea got that T.S. Eliot wrote an anti - Romantic poetry , rather than poetry which is the product of what is in important ways a late - Romantic sensibility ( as it could not help but be ...
... idea which now seems so undeniably quaint – the idea got that T.S. Eliot wrote an anti - Romantic poetry , rather than poetry which is the product of what is in important ways a late - Romantic sensibility ( as it could not help but be ...
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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