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Page 34
Contrary to what some people believe , it is only a few bad and fake poets who preen themselves upon their alienation from the society at large , and exult in it . To most of us I think it is a fairly constant source of distress and ...
Contrary to what some people believe , it is only a few bad and fake poets who preen themselves upon their alienation from the society at large , and exult in it . To most of us I think it is a fairly constant source of distress and ...
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... poetry is social : not that it is sustained by society and social usage , nor that it is inescapably restricted by society and its usages , but that it is addressed to society , or rather to some identifiable group within society .
... poetry is social : not that it is sustained by society and social usage , nor that it is inescapably restricted by society and its usages , but that it is addressed to society , or rather to some identifiable group within society .
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What Hay shows is that the commuting or pardoning of severe sentences was , at least outside the commercial centres of London and perhaps Bristol , a principal way of knitting English society together , in a way that was hierarchical ...
What Hay shows is that the commuting or pardoning of severe sentences was , at least outside the commercial centres of London and perhaps Bristol , a principal way of knitting English society together , in a way that was hierarchical ...
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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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