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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present in the minds of earnest and dedicated poets of our time ; but present in the way that Dryden and Eliot in their different ways indicate - that is to say , as an excellence to be aimed at though never equalled , but never to be ...
present in the minds of earnest and dedicated poets of our time ; but present in the way that Dryden and Eliot in their different ways indicate - that is to say , as an excellence to be aimed at though never equalled , but never to be ...
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III There is evidence that in the present age those readers who still take pleasure in Paradise Lost sometimes do so by regarding it , not primarily as a narrative ( epic or heroic poem ) , but rather as a poetic encyclopaedia of arcane ...
III There is evidence that in the present age those readers who still take pleasure in Paradise Lost sometimes do so by regarding it , not primarily as a narrative ( epic or heroic poem ) , but rather as a poetic encyclopaedia of arcane ...
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By implication ( since Lysicles is a fool ) there is present another , Burkean image of the State as something which , if blown up , dissolved , remoulded , pulled to pieces , jumbled , confounded , shaken together , and allowed to ...
By implication ( since Lysicles is a fool ) there is present another , Burkean image of the State as something which , if blown up , dissolved , remoulded , pulled to pieces , jumbled , confounded , shaken together , and allowed to ...
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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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