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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... poet is his own language ... ' . If Ben Jonson is a great poet ( and I am sure he is ) , he seems to me an exception to Eliot's rule ; in the present century as in the seventeenth century , poets who are prepared to take the very ...
... poet is his own language ... ' . If Ben Jonson is a great poet ( and I am sure he is ) , he seems to me an exception to Eliot's rule ; in the present century as in the seventeenth century , poets who are prepared to take the very ...
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... poet will be able to take his procedure as a model . One sort of poet works his way to God by learning the lessons of experience , drawing conclusions from it , and so coming upon the moral laws behind it . Another sort of poet leaps up ...
... poet will be able to take his procedure as a model . One sort of poet works his way to God by learning the lessons of experience , drawing conclusions from it , and so coming upon the moral laws behind it . Another sort of poet leaps up ...
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... 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 the benefit of the doubt ; that would not be co - operation but indulgence . Rather ...
... 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 the benefit of the doubt ; that would not be co - operation but indulgence . Rather ...
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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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