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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... learned from the Inferno that the greatest poetry can be written with the greatest economy of words , and with the greatest austerity in the use of metaphor , simile , verbal beauty , and elegance . When I affirm that more can be learned ...
... learned from the Inferno that the greatest poetry can be written with the greatest economy of words , and with the greatest austerity in the use of metaphor , simile , verbal beauty , and elegance . When I affirm that more can be learned ...
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... learned , literary men ; he senses the current modes of writing ; and even though he believes in freedom of language ... the writer is nevertheless tacitly and unconsciously influenced by the accepted conventions of public speech and ...
... learned , literary men ; he senses the current modes of writing ; and even though he believes in freedom of language ... the writer is nevertheless tacitly and unconsciously influenced by the accepted conventions of public speech and ...
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... learned propriety adopts it to designate a principle of physics , upon its root meaning in Latin . ' Gravity ' becomes ' gravitas ' , becomes ' weight ' . And so , once again , a grave thinker becomes a leaden - footed thinker . His ...
... learned propriety adopts it to designate a principle of physics , upon its root meaning in Latin . ' Gravity ' becomes ' gravitas ' , becomes ' weight ' . And so , once again , a grave thinker becomes a leaden - footed thinker . His ...
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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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