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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once again the sort of giddiness in which we see things turn into their opposites , until our heads swim . But the passage from Eliot prompts other and more far - reaching reflections . It would not make our heads swim if it were not ...
once again the sort of giddiness in which we see things turn into their opposites , until our heads swim . But the passage from Eliot prompts other and more far - reaching reflections . It would not make our heads swim if it were not ...
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This is my opinion , and was once the opinion of a set of honest men who were called Levellers . They tried to erect themselves into a community , where all should be equally free . But , alas ! it would never answer ; for there were ...
This is my opinion , and was once the opinion of a set of honest men who were called Levellers . They tried to erect themselves into a community , where all should be equally free . But , alas ! it would never answer ; for there were ...
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And this , once remembered , gives to the phrase the sense not only of guiding along a navigated track , but of teaching wings how to fly . In the same way , the seacoast is not pathless , but only the coast imagined as duplicated at ...
And this , once remembered , gives to the phrase the sense not only of guiding along a navigated track , but of teaching wings how to fly . In the same way , the seacoast is not pathless , but only the coast imagined as duplicated at ...
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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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