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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... rhetoric , then there is no way for us to use our language , however artless and unpremeditated , that is not rhetorical . And if this is so , then our common practice of calling some usages ' rhetor- ical ' , as against others that ...
... rhetoric , then there is no way for us to use our language , however artless and unpremeditated , that is not rhetorical . And if this is so , then our common practice of calling some usages ' rhetor- ical ' , as against others that ...
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... rhetoric and poetry , deal with the pre - Romantic poetry that on the contrary was clear - headed about these matters ? If we believe that rhetoric is the enemy of poetry , what access can we have to the - - eighteenth - century poetry ...
... rhetoric and poetry , deal with the pre - Romantic poetry that on the contrary was clear - headed about these matters ? If we believe that rhetoric is the enemy of poetry , what access can we have to the - - eighteenth - century poetry ...
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... rhetoric , or , as we might say , between conceptual and aesthetic experience . This is the point of citing Aristotle's reference in the Metaphysics , and it is taken up in the Rhetoric : Again , since learning and wondering are ...
... rhetoric , or , as we might say , between conceptual and aesthetic experience . This is the point of citing Aristotle's reference in the Metaphysics , and it is taken up in the Rhetoric : Again , since learning and wondering are ...
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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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