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
... 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 com- mon consent among the greatest minds of their age : from ...
... 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 com- mon consent among the greatest minds of their age : from ...
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... person ( as I take him to be ) should declare I am in an error , and at the same time , out of modesty , refuse to shew me where it lies , is something unaccountable ...... I never expected that a gentleman otherwise so well employed ...
... person ( as I take him to be ) should declare I am in an error , and at the same time , out of modesty , refuse to shew me where it lies , is something unaccountable ...... I never expected that a gentleman otherwise so well employed ...
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... persons indeed capable of relishing Homer . He is the best poet that ever lived for many reasons , but for none more than for that majestic plainness that distinguishes him from all others . As an accomplished person moves gracefully ...
... persons indeed capable of relishing Homer . He is the best poet that ever lived for many reasons , but for none more than for that majestic plainness that distinguishes him from all others . As an accomplished person moves gracefully ...
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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