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This seems to be , for instance , the drift of J. B. Broadbent's insistence : Milton's material is not only integrated at every point with his poem's plot , but was a matter of living interest to all educated people at the time of ...
This seems to be , for instance , the drift of J. B. Broadbent's insistence : Milton's material is not only integrated at every point with his poem's plot , but was a matter of living interest to all educated people at the time of ...
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But we have seen that Milton often deploys his ' plot ' , the action of his story , in such a way as to frustrate our interest in it . And this means that the developing plot cannot , as we read the poem , hold together the massive and ...
But we have seen that Milton often deploys his ' plot ' , the action of his story , in such a way as to frustrate our interest in it . And this means that the developing plot cannot , as we read the poem , hold together the massive and ...
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Or else , to look down the gallery from another vantage - point ; three men of the landed interest ( Caryll , Walter , Digby ) ; one of the City interest ( Blunt ) ; one man of trade ( Allen , though he bought himself into a landed ...
Or else , to look down the gallery from another vantage - point ; three men of the landed interest ( Caryll , Walter , Digby ) ; one of the City interest ( Blunt ) ; one man of trade ( Allen , though he bought himself into a landed ...
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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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