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Page 142
And indeed the most powerful imaginations of that England seem very often to be fascinated by , and in search of , images ... For the Roman Empire cannot figure for the imagination as other than an image of order , and by and large very ...
And indeed the most powerful imaginations of that England seem very often to be fascinated by , and in search of , images ... For the Roman Empire cannot figure for the imagination as other than an image of order , and by and large very ...
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On the contrary , what makes the Discourses an achievement of the literary imagination is something much more nearly connected with what makes them also a penetrating and perennially relevant examination of political behaviour .
On the contrary , what makes the Discourses an achievement of the literary imagination is something much more nearly connected with what makes them also a penetrating and perennially relevant examination of political behaviour .
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... attempts to ' lead in ' to his subject are lamentable , and the first lines of ' The Brothers ' are especially disastrous ; this is a particular case of Wordsworth's lack of dramatic imagination in even the loosest sense .
... attempts to ' lead in ' to his subject are lamentable , and the first lines of ' The Brothers ' are especially disastrous ; this is a particular case of Wordsworth's lack of dramatic imagination in even the loosest sense .
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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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