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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... imagination . ' This is precisely the assump- tion which underlies Johnson's metaphorical use of terms from natural science . And Blake pounces at once : ' Here is a Plain Confes- sion that he thinks Mind and Imagination not to be above ...
... imagination . ' This is precisely the assump- tion which underlies Johnson's metaphorical use of terms from natural science . And Blake pounces at once : ' Here is a Plain Confes- sion that he thinks Mind and Imagination not to be above ...
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... imaginations of that England seem very often to be fascinated by , and in search of , images of fixity and rigidity ... imagination as other than an image of order , and by and large very fixed and rigid order . In our post - Darwinian ...
... imaginations of that England seem very often to be fascinated by , and in search of , images of fixity and rigidity ... imagination as other than an image of order , and by and large very fixed and rigid order . In our post - Darwinian ...
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... imagination . If we now define the place where that failure comes , it is by no means to deny that the Discourses are a great imaginative achievement ; it is on the contrary to define that achieve- ment by setting bounds to it . In the ...
... imagination . If we now define the place where that failure comes , it is by no means to deny that the Discourses are a great imaginative achievement ; it is on the contrary to define that achieve- ment by setting bounds to it . In the ...
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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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