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 123
... mind and a quick one , but the chastening comedy of how the human mind will twist and turn ( unconsciously ) to evade unpalatable con- clusions , to cling to what is familiar . The candour comes with the realization by both speakers ...
... mind and a quick one , but the chastening comedy of how the human mind will twist and turn ( unconsciously ) to evade unpalatable con- clusions , to cling to what is familiar . The candour comes with the realization by both speakers ...
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... mind , but not for an Irish mind such as his own . At any rate , it seems clear that Yeats in 1931 was so far from considering himself a Romantic , that he thought of his escaping Romanticism ( and its consequences ) as part of his very ...
... mind , but not for an Irish mind such as his own . At any rate , it seems clear that Yeats in 1931 was so far from considering himself a Romantic , that he thought of his escaping Romanticism ( and its consequences ) as part of his very ...
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... mind for what is hard , terrible , evil , dubious in existence , arising from a plethora of health , plenitude of being . ' And this penchant of the mind ' Nietzsche identifies with the Dionysiac temper or the Dionysiac principle . Now ...
... mind for what is hard , terrible , evil , dubious in existence , arising from a plethora of health , plenitude of being . ' And this penchant of the mind ' Nietzsche identifies with the Dionysiac temper or the Dionysiac principle . Now ...
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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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