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Page 49
The story , the narrative , is only a convenient skeleton ; its function is to provoke interesting and important speculative questions . Or rather , the story told is centrally important to Milton precisely because it does raise ( and ...
The story , the narrative , is only a convenient skeleton ; its function is to provoke interesting and important speculative questions . Or rather , the story told is centrally important to Milton precisely because it does raise ( and ...
Page 93
But Jefferson makes what is for our purposes a more important point when he shows that both Sterne and Swift , when they use science like this , belong in a tradition which goes far back into the sixteenth century .
But Jefferson makes what is for our purposes a more important point when he shows that both Sterne and Swift , when they use science like this , belong in a tradition which goes far back into the sixteenth century .
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An easily definable and very important area of the language , in which this process can be observed , is the vocabulary ... One cannot read Shakespeare or any of his contemporaries without realizing how important for the sixteenth and ...
An easily definable and very important area of the language , in which this process can be observed , is the vocabulary ... One cannot read Shakespeare or any of his contemporaries without realizing how important for the sixteenth and ...
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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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