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433 ) There is excellent comedy here , not only the drama of a slow mind and a quick one , but the chastening comedy of how the human mind will twist and turn ( unconsciously ) to evade unpalatable conclusions , to cling to what is ...
433 ) There is excellent comedy here , not only the drama of a slow mind and a quick one , but the chastening comedy of how the human mind will twist and turn ( unconsciously ) to evade unpalatable conclusions , to cling to what is ...
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... the Romantic bottle party ; but his attitude now seems to be that his doing so was an aberration , that the Romantic phase was part of the logic of historical events for an English mind , but not for an Irish mind such as his own .
... the Romantic bottle party ; but his attitude now seems to be that his doing so was an aberration , that the Romantic phase was part of the logic of historical events for an English mind , but not for an Irish mind such as his own .
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But Nietzsche has been cited already as one who was struck , as Wordsworth was , by the way in which health seeks out morbidity , by ( to use Nietzsche's own terms ) ' A penchant of the mind for what is hard , terrible , evil , dubious ...
But Nietzsche has been cited already as one who was struck , as Wordsworth was , by the way in which health seeks out morbidity , by ( to use Nietzsche's own terms ) ' A penchant of the mind for what is hard , terrible , evil , dubious ...
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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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