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but only the much less interesting question ' thrown where ? ' In fact , this question is so unexciting that we don't even ask it ; so that ' Into th'Euboic Sea ' hangs superfluous the sentence could just as well have ended where the ...
but only the much less interesting question ' thrown where ? ' In fact , this question is so unexciting that we don't even ask it ; so that ' Into th'Euboic Sea ' hangs superfluous the sentence could just as well have ended where the ...
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And even from that point of view , one may object either that the society is not idealized enough , or else that the society in question does not deserve what Dryden claims for it . To say that the piece as a whole is not great ...
And even from that point of view , one may object either that the society is not idealized enough , or else that the society in question does not deserve what Dryden claims for it . To say that the piece as a whole is not great ...
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He knows that artifice is always a part of art ; he only thinks that the less the artifice appears in the art , the more natural it is . For him it is all a question of degree : and this is how the question is seen today .
He knows that artifice is always a part of art ; he only thinks that the less the artifice appears in the art , the more natural it is . For him it is all a question of degree : and this is how the question is seen today .
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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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