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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... 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 to ' demand ' or to ' call upon ' us to ...
... 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 to ' demand ' or to ' call upon ' us to ...
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... 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 . One most marked feature of that cult , perhaps the central ...
... 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 . One most marked feature of that cult , perhaps the central ...
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... perhaps , a good one . Just for that reason it demands very careful reading . When a poet's achievement is pre- carious at best , he requires in especial degree the co - operation of his readers . Not that he should be repeatedly given ...
... perhaps , a good one . Just for that reason it demands very careful reading . When a poet's achievement is pre- carious at best , he requires in especial degree the co - operation of his readers . Not that he should be repeatedly given ...
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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