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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This is Pasternak , in his autobiography , Safe Conduct : What does an honest man do when he speaks the truth only ? ... Should a man speak in this manner everywhere and always ? a And in art he has to shut his mouth ...
This is Pasternak , in his autobiography , Safe Conduct : What does an honest man do when he speaks the truth only ? ... Should a man speak in this manner everywhere and always ? a And in art he has to shut his mouth ...
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One wants instead to speak of ' muscularity ' , using ' muscular ' , however , in a special sense , different from ( because more literal than ) the sense in which we can justly speak of other poetry as ' muscular ' .
One wants instead to speak of ' muscularity ' , using ' muscular ' , however , in a special sense , different from ( because more literal than ) the sense in which we can justly speak of other poetry as ' muscular ' .
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This habit of thought has left indelible traces on our own vocabulary , as when we speak of the National Coal Board or of the House of Commons or of the Privy Council as a properly constituted body ' , when we speak of our monarch as ...
This habit of thought has left indelible traces on our own vocabulary , as when we speak of the National Coal Board or of the House of Commons or of the Privy Council as a properly constituted body ' , when we speak of our monarch as ...
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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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