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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once again the sort of giddiness in which we see things turn into their opposites , until our heads swim . But the passage from Eliot prompts other and more far - reaching reflections . It would not make our heads swim if it were not ...
once again the sort of giddiness in which we see things turn into their opposites , until our heads swim . But the passage from Eliot prompts other and more far - reaching reflections . It would not make our heads swim if it were not ...
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It provokes a sort of implicated bewilderment in the reader , who asks himself with dizzied anxiety how one supposedly logical because grammatical sentence has led him so far from its own starting - point . His bewilderment continues as ...
It provokes a sort of implicated bewilderment in the reader , who asks himself with dizzied anxiety how one supposedly logical because grammatical sentence has led him so far from its own starting - point . His bewilderment continues as ...
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And the implication is plain : if the distinction between admiration and fear is , as Milton conveys it , a sort of footnote , then this is a sort of poem in which the footnotes matter more than the text . The story , the narrative ...
And the implication is plain : if the distinction between admiration and fear is , as Milton conveys it , a sort of footnote , then this is a sort of poem in which the footnotes matter more than the text . The story , the narrative ...
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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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