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whether intentional or not – that it is hard to make useful divisions of the poem into sections any further ' ( though I suspect we are by this time formulating our own ideas about ' whether intentional or not ' ) .
whether intentional or not – that it is hard to make useful divisions of the poem into sections any further ' ( though I suspect we are by this time formulating our own ideas about ' whether intentional or not ' ) .
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117 , where Johnson himself makes jokes out of the puns concealed in the idea of ' elevation ' , arguing that since it's good for an ... But the centrally important point remains ; that the new philosophy , the new words and ideas ...
117 , where Johnson himself makes jokes out of the puns concealed in the idea of ' elevation ' , arguing that since it's good for an ... But the centrally important point remains ; that the new philosophy , the new words and ideas ...
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Of course Romantic poets also personified , though usually with a much less clear idea than Christopher Smart of just what it was they were doing . And ' energy ' and ' Nature ' have been for nearly two centuries so much part of the ...
Of course Romantic poets also personified , though usually with a much less clear idea than Christopher Smart of just what it was they were doing . And ' energy ' and ' Nature ' have been for nearly two centuries so much part of the ...
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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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