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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If you try to imitate Shakespeare you will certainly produce a series of stilted , forced , and violent distortions of language . The language of each great English poet is his own language ; the language of Dante is the perfection of a ...
If you try to imitate Shakespeare you will certainly produce a series of stilted , forced , and violent distortions of language . The language of each great English poet is his own language ; the language of Dante is the perfection of a ...
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If we follow the clue provided by Mallarmé , his reminder that poetry is made not of ideas but of words , we see the creative writer as a marauder , who ransacks the language of his own time and earlier , looking for words which are ...
If we follow the clue provided by Mallarmé , his reminder that poetry is made not of ideas but of words , we see the creative writer as a marauder , who ransacks the language of his own time and earlier , looking for words which are ...
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It invites us for instance to envisage the inherited language , the poet's medium as the poet apprehends it in the act of composing , as something no less bleakly confronting , no more negotiable , than the cliff of Carrara marble that ...
It invites us for instance to envisage the inherited language , the poet's medium as the poet apprehends it in the act of composing , as something no less bleakly confronting , no more negotiable , than the cliff of Carrara marble that ...
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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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