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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Nature ' they do not all mean the same thing . The point is made by a pair of recent editors : It soon becomes apparent in reading these arguments that the chief terms of the disagreement result from two conceptions of the word ' Nature ...
Nature ' they do not all mean the same thing . The point is made by a pair of recent editors : It soon becomes apparent in reading these arguments that the chief terms of the disagreement result from two conceptions of the word ' Nature ...
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their interpretation of following Nature , according as some take it to mean making Nature stand out in clean ... The speakers differ , as it were , in another dimension , according as some suppose art more natural the more it seems to ...
their interpretation of following Nature , according as some take it to mean making Nature stand out in clean ... The speakers differ , as it were , in another dimension , according as some suppose art more natural the more it seems to ...
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a desire of superiority ; for they are always found together , and what God and nature have united , let no audacious legislator presume to put asunder . The concession which Adams makes here – when he envisages ' the reverse ...
a desire of superiority ; for they are always found together , and what God and nature have united , let no audacious legislator presume to put asunder . The concession which Adams makes here – when he envisages ' the reverse ...
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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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