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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Page 38
Moreover , if we want to know the sort of person he was , there is not a lot more to go on - a handful of personal tributes , that's all . It's remarkable , though , that these tributes come from three men who were by common consent ...
Moreover , if we want to know the sort of person he was , there is not a lot more to go on - a handful of personal tributes , that's all . It's remarkable , though , that these tributes come from three men who were by common consent ...
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... the still youthful Berkeley ( 1685-1753 ) wrote to his friend Percival expressing his disappointment that Samuel Clarke had refused to be drawn into discussion of that work : That an ingenious and candid person ( as I take him to be ) ...
... the still youthful Berkeley ( 1685-1753 ) wrote to his friend Percival expressing his disappointment that Samuel Clarke had refused to be drawn into discussion of that work : That an ingenious and candid person ( as I take him to be ) ...
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As an accomplished person moves gracefully without thinking of it , in like manner the dignity of Homer seems to cost him no labour . It was natural for him to say great things , and to say them well , and little ornaments were beneath ...
As an accomplished person moves gracefully without thinking of it , in like manner the dignity of Homer seems to cost him no labour . It was natural for him to say great things , and to say them well , and little ornaments were beneath ...
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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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