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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... reader will know , from personal experience or else from sympathy with others , those hours in which the dedicated life asks itself if the game is worth the candle , decides that it isn't , and then with bewilderment finds that it will ...
... reader will know , from personal experience or else from sympathy with others , those hours in which the dedicated life asks itself if the game is worth the candle , decides that it isn't , and then with bewilderment finds that it will ...
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... reader : An author who writes in his own person has the advantage of being who or what he pleases . He is no certain man , nor has any certain or genuine character ; but suits himself on every occasion to the fancy of his reader , whom ...
... reader : An author who writes in his own person has the advantage of being who or what he pleases . He is no certain man , nor has any certain or genuine character ; but suits himself on every occasion to the fancy of his reader , whom ...
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... reader can with ease take his first rough bearings , and the poet can rely upon his doing so . When poets and readers agree , for instance , that certain metres , certain rhetorical figures , a certain vocabulary , go along with elegy ...
... reader can with ease take his first rough bearings , and the poet can rely upon his doing so . When poets and readers agree , for instance , that certain metres , certain rhetorical figures , a certain vocabulary , go along with elegy ...
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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