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Smart is as far as possible from seeing the child in the Wordsworthian way as ' mighty prophet , seer blest ' ; there is no sign of the Romantic conviction which lies behind some of Blake's Songs of Innocence as well as behind ...
Smart is as far as possible from seeing the child in the Wordsworthian way as ' mighty prophet , seer blest ' ; there is no sign of the Romantic conviction which lies behind some of Blake's Songs of Innocence as well as behind ...
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1 And less than three weeks later he asks another correspondent : Is it possible to inlist the ' Fine Arts ' , on the side of Truth , of Virtue , of Piety , or even of Honour ? From the dawn of History they have been prostituted to the ...
1 And less than three weeks later he asks another correspondent : Is it possible to inlist the ' Fine Arts ' , on the side of Truth , of Virtue , of Piety , or even of Honour ? From the dawn of History they have been prostituted to the ...
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... who asked us to admire ' To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees ' , finding there ' a strength – a native English strength – lying beyond the scope of the poet who aimed to make English as like Italian as possible ' .
... who asked us to admire ' To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees ' , finding there ' a strength – a native English strength – lying beyond the scope of the poet who aimed to make English as like Italian as possible ' .
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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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