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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... speak of ' muscularity ' , using ' muscular ' , however , in a special sense , dif- ferent from ( because more literal than ) the sense in which we can justly speak of other poetry as ' muscular ' . The effect is kinetic . The placing ...
... speak of ' muscularity ' , using ' muscular ' , however , in a special sense , dif- ferent from ( because more literal than ) the sense in which we can justly speak of other poetry as ' muscular ' . The effect is kinetic . The placing ...
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... speak of a ' mild ' purgative as we speak of a ' mild ' disposition ; and ' mild ' therefore can be used so that the reader feels , in the word , an identity of physical and spiritual . Berkeley recommends tar - water ( $ 105 ) as ' a ...
... speak of a ' mild ' purgative as we speak of a ' mild ' disposition ; and ' mild ' therefore can be used so that the reader feels , in the word , an identity of physical and spiritual . Berkeley recommends tar - water ( $ 105 ) as ' a ...
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... 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 ' the Head of State ' , or of whomever it is as the ' head ' of the Coal Board ...
... 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 ' the Head of State ' , or of whomever it is as the ' head ' of the Coal Board ...
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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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