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a Blossumes of pride that cann nor vade nor fall ... , lines 193-200 , and also 200-212 , being false starts intended for later deletion or else transference elsewhere . There are marks in the manuscript against both these passages ...
a Blossumes of pride that cann nor vade nor fall ... , lines 193-200 , and also 200-212 , being false starts intended for later deletion or else transference elsewhere . There are marks in the manuscript against both these passages ...
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Neither kinetic and dramatic effect , as in the lines on Satan's fall , nor narrative and musical effect , as in the invocation to Light , are in evidence at all frequently as we read Paradise Lost . For example : Others with vast ...
Neither kinetic and dramatic effect , as in the lines on Satan's fall , nor narrative and musical effect , as in the invocation to Light , are in evidence at all frequently as we read Paradise Lost . For example : Others with vast ...
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These are famous lines which we try to read with due solemnity , however their doctrine may outrage us . But perhaps we give them more solemnity than is due . For put them back in their contexts , and willy - nilly they read jauntily ...
These are famous lines which we try to read with due solemnity , however their doctrine may outrage us . But perhaps we give them more solemnity than is due . For put them back in their contexts , and willy - nilly they read jauntily ...
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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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