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... Land or his ' Ash Wednesday ' , or of Pound's Cantos , will be ready to think that thus to play fast and loose with formal grammar is one of the poet's rights ; for only in this way can certain valuable poetic effects be attained .
... Land or his ' Ash Wednesday ' , or of Pound's Cantos , will be ready to think that thus to play fast and loose with formal grammar is one of the poet's rights ; for only in this way can certain valuable poetic effects be attained .
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This brings us to the same point as Marjorie Nicolson's research into the poetic influence of Isaac Newton ; we have ... because he traces the effect of this assumption or delusion , not in what the poets wrote or what they wrote about ...
This brings us to the same point as Marjorie Nicolson's research into the poetic influence of Isaac Newton ; we have ... because he traces the effect of this assumption or delusion , not in what the poets wrote or what they wrote about ...
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For such a devotee of poetry ( a term which , as Professor Oakeshott uses it , comprehends all literature and all the finer arts ) , it is essential to maintain that the poetic activity contributes not just to the conversation of ...
For such a devotee of poetry ( a term which , as Professor Oakeshott uses it , comprehends all literature and all the finer arts ) , it is essential to maintain that the poetic activity contributes not just to the conversation of ...
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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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