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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... later working - over . Yet if we point this out to a modern reader , as Edwards does , he can still impenitently retreat to that metaphysical hinterland of criti- cism where roam those fabulous beasts , the intentional and the affec ...
... later working - over . Yet if we point this out to a modern reader , as Edwards does , he can still impenitently retreat to that metaphysical hinterland of criti- cism where roam those fabulous beasts , the intentional and the affec ...
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... later he left without taking a degree . There is some evidence that later he travelled on the continent in the diplomatic service , but all we can be sure of is that he was twice elected member of parliament for Helston , and that in ...
... later he left without taking a degree . There is some evidence that later he travelled on the continent in the diplomatic service , but all we can be sure of is that he was twice elected member of parliament for Helston , and that in ...
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... later sections of that manuscript ; for its place had been taken by the work on the Psalms , to which Smart refers excitedly in the later parts of the other poem . Moreover , since Smart set about as soon as he was released to solicit ...
... later sections of that manuscript ; for its place had been taken by the work on the Psalms , to which Smart refers excitedly in the later parts of the other poem . Moreover , since Smart set about as soon as he was released to solicit ...
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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