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Page 37
But outside a small circle of literary scholars , the name is often attached to a nephew of the poet – a later Sidney Godolphin , who was Lord High Treasurer of England . The Sidney Godolphin I am concerned with was born about 1610 and ...
But outside a small circle of literary scholars , the name is often attached to a nephew of the poet – a later Sidney Godolphin , who was Lord High Treasurer of England . The Sidney Godolphin I am concerned with was born about 1610 and ...
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The grandiose liturgical design which Smart had in mind when he composed the A and B fragments of Rejoice in the Lamb has quite disappeared from the later sections of that manuscript ; for its place had been taken by the work on the ...
The grandiose liturgical design which Smart had in mind when he composed the A and B fragments of Rejoice in the Lamb has quite disappeared from the later sections of that manuscript ; for its place had been taken by the work on the ...
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We are so aware of the confusingly many things that Romanticism later became , that we are in every danger of forgetting what a simple and salient thing it must have appeared to start with ; and most of our difficulties with ...
We are so aware of the confusingly many things that Romanticism later became , that we are in every danger of forgetting what a simple and salient thing it must have appeared to start with ; and most of our difficulties with ...
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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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