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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... political theory so clearly foreshadows Burke's that between them , he thought , they made of the political philosophy of English conservatism an Anglo - Irish creation . But of course Burke's use of language in political theory is not ...
... political theory so clearly foreshadows Burke's that between them , he thought , they made of the political philosophy of English conservatism an Anglo - Irish creation . But of course Burke's use of language in political theory is not ...
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... political theorist , and of Burke's organicist persuasion . It seems that of all the natural sciences chemistry was ... political metaphors like the Shakespearean metaphor of grafting and gardening3 and gives them new life : 1 Our ...
... political theorist , and of Burke's organicist persuasion . It seems that of all the natural sciences chemistry was ... political metaphors like the Shakespearean metaphor of grafting and gardening3 and gives them new life : 1 Our ...
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... political writer of this kind , John Adams , the second President of the United States . And I shall suggest , first , that Adams indeed combines perceptiveness in politics with poetic activity , in the same way , if not to the same ...
... political writer of this kind , John Adams , the second President of the United States . And I shall suggest , first , that Adams indeed combines perceptiveness in politics with poetic activity , in the same way , if not to the same ...
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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