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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Page 76
... kind of writing , till we could produce as good plays in rhyme as Ben Jonson , Fletcher and Shakespeare had writ out of it . But it is to raise envy to the living , to compare them with the dead . They are honoured , and almost adored ...
... kind of writing , till we could produce as good plays in rhyme as Ben Jonson , Fletcher and Shakespeare had writ out of it . But it is to raise envy to the living , to compare them with the dead . They are honoured , and almost adored ...
Page 97
... kind of rule , ' and vinegar that makes them sour · and camomile that makes them bitter and – and barley - sugar and such things that make children sweet - tempered . I only wish people knew that : then they wouldn't be so stingy about ...
... kind of rule , ' and vinegar that makes them sour · and camomile that makes them bitter and – and barley - sugar and such things that make children sweet - tempered . I only wish people knew that : then they wouldn't be so stingy about ...
Page 148
... kind of lyric poetry ... which , like epic poetry , tends to be direct and normative in style ... to eschew metaphor or else to use it for mere rhetorical condensation instead of Blake's apocalyptic overtones or Baudelaire's ...
... kind of lyric poetry ... which , like epic poetry , tends to be direct and normative in style ... to eschew metaphor or else to use it for mere rhetorical condensation instead of Blake's apocalyptic overtones or Baudelaire's ...
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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