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Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature Donald Davie. a 2 like it much less . Very often , when candour and civility are achieved in literature , they bore us . To the perfect good manners of Addison , or of Berkeley ...
Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature Donald Davie. a 2 like it much less . Very often , when candour and civility are achieved in literature , they bore us . To the perfect good manners of Addison , or of Berkeley ...
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English students of English literature seldom ask these questions , let alone answer them . The questions crop up only when , as too seldom happens , we try to see our native literature in the context of foreign literatures ; for then ...
English students of English literature seldom ask these questions , let alone answer them . The questions crop up only when , as too seldom happens , we try to see our native literature in the context of foreign literatures ; for then ...
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Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature Donald Davie. 66 - a speaking ( not merely to persuade but chiefly to compose memorable verbal images ) was pre - eminent , and in which action was for the achievement of “ glory ...
Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature Donald Davie. 66 - a speaking ( not merely to persuade but chiefly to compose memorable verbal images ) was pre - eminent , and in which action was for the achievement of “ glory ...
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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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