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This is not to say just that Milton hasn't seen the incident , though as usual he hasn't , where Spenser plainly has , though his image is just as hard for the mind's eye to grasp . But there are more ways of experiencing than through ...
This is not to say just that Milton hasn't seen the incident , though as usual he hasn't , where Spenser plainly has , though his image is just as hard for the mind's eye to grasp . But there are more ways of experiencing than through ...
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Literary traditions are seen no longer as so many different modes , each with its peculiar pleasure for the discriminating palate , but seen as the poet sees them , pen in hand - as a rich legacy , certainly , but also as a range of ...
Literary traditions are seen no longer as so many different modes , each with its peculiar pleasure for the discriminating palate , but seen as the poet sees them , pen in hand - as a rich legacy , certainly , but also as a range of ...
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Have we not seen , round Britain's peopled shore , Her useful sons exchang'd for useless ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste , Like flaring tapers brightening as they waste ; Seen opulence , her grandeur to maintain ...
Have we not seen , round Britain's peopled shore , Her useful sons exchang'd for useless ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste , Like flaring tapers brightening as they waste ; Seen opulence , her grandeur to maintain ...
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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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