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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Page 157
... literary history but literary criticism involves us in the labours of the historian and the biographer , and not solely or chiefly with printed sources . How to do the grubbing while not losing sight of what the grubbing is for ( that ...
... literary history but literary criticism involves us in the labours of the historian and the biographer , and not solely or chiefly with printed sources . How to do the grubbing while not losing sight of what the grubbing is for ( that ...
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... literary historian and literary critic , what has always weighed more with me is the encouragement that I got from him when I was a beginning poet . And there are other poets among my contemporaries who would say the same . Indeed it ...
... literary historian and literary critic , what has always weighed more with me is the encouragement that I got from him when I was a beginning poet . And there are other poets among my contemporaries who would say the same . Indeed it ...
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... literary treasure ' , he ought to have trusted that feeling . His discovery that the Discourses , when they depart from Davila , rest on a chapter of Adam Smith which Adams amplifies out of Johnson and Shakespeare and others - this ...
... literary treasure ' , he ought to have trusted that feeling . His discovery that the Discourses , when they depart from Davila , rest on a chapter of Adam Smith which Adams amplifies out of Johnson and Shakespeare and others - this ...
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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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