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 95
... language of his own time and earlier , looking for words which are arresting and suggestive , or for words , dry and inconspicuous in common usage or in the place where he finds them ... Language of Science and the Language of Literature 95.
... language of his own time and earlier , looking for words which are arresting and suggestive , or for words , dry and inconspicuous in common usage or in the place where he finds them ... Language of Science and the Language of Literature 95.
Page 96
... language for some of the novel words he would have excluded . In his Pelican book , Our Language , Simeon Potter remarks ' All those complex changes and developments , all those adoptions and adapta- tions which had contributed to the ...
... language for some of the novel words he would have excluded . In his Pelican book , Our Language , Simeon Potter remarks ' All those complex changes and developments , all those adoptions and adapta- tions which had contributed to the ...
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... language that French theorists and their Anglo - American followers have lately pressed upon us : language seen as a band of nebulous haze , infinitely malleable and protean according as the needs or whims of speaker and of auditor ...
... language that French theorists and their Anglo - American followers have lately pressed upon us : language seen as a band of nebulous haze , infinitely malleable and protean according as the needs or whims of speaker and of auditor ...
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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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