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do something , march on the White House perhaps ; ' mere Humanity calls upon us to ... ' do something , perhaps refuse to buy South African oranges . In sentences like these , an abstract quality , ' Justice ' or ' Humanity ' , is made ...
do something , march on the White House perhaps ; ' mere Humanity calls upon us to ... ' do something , perhaps refuse to buy South African oranges . In sentences like these , an abstract quality , ' Justice ' or ' Humanity ' , is made ...
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Its importance , for Wordsworth as perhaps for us , can be brought home if we see it in the context of the cult of sensibility in the late eighteenth century , and the special sort of sentimentality it produced .
Its importance , for Wordsworth as perhaps for us , can be brought home if we see it in the context of the cult of sensibility in the late eighteenth century , and the special sort of sentimentality it produced .
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It is not a great poem , it is only just , perhaps , a good one . Just for that reason it demands very careful reading . When a poet's achievement is precarious at best , he requires in especial degree the co - operation of his readers ...
It is not a great poem , it is only just , perhaps , a good one . Just for that reason it demands very careful reading . When a poet's achievement is precarious at best , he requires in especial degree the co - operation of his readers ...
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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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