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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Page 152
... stanza is part of a larger symmetry by which , in this section of the poem , the key phrase ' For ADORA- TION ' slips , stanza by stanza , from the first line to the sixth twice over ; and this in turn is locked into a larger structure ...
... stanza is part of a larger symmetry by which , in this section of the poem , the key phrase ' For ADORA- TION ' slips , stanza by stanza , from the first line to the sixth twice over ; and this in turn is locked into a larger structure ...
Page 283
... stanza to stanza , and indeed in every new form of modification in sound , the quality of shadow , echo , or answer , rather than the massed and cumulative forces of the old pentameters ' . This is a description of the musical ...
... stanza to stanza , and indeed in every new form of modification in sound , the quality of shadow , echo , or answer , rather than the massed and cumulative forces of the old pentameters ' . This is a description of the musical ...
Page 294
... stanza , but some larger unit which would provide for a gathering impetus and élan . Poet and reader alike begin to move with more assurance in the fourth stanza . Here , for the first time in the poem , we encounter something in the ...
... stanza , but some larger unit which would provide for a gathering impetus and élan . Poet and reader alike begin to move with more assurance in the fourth stanza . Here , for the first time in the poem , we encounter something in the ...
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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