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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... surely was , despite occasional five - line stanzas , tercets , and unat- tached couplets like this one ) there can be no doubt that this repre- sents a place where Ralegh knows that smoothing out will be called for . But this is not to ...
... surely was , despite occasional five - line stanzas , tercets , and unat- tached couplets like this one ) there can be no doubt that this repre- sents a place where Ralegh knows that smoothing out will be called for . But this is not to ...
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... surely true that this is how the usage must affect readers who are poor Latinists , as most readers now are . Cook is surely right to object : ' More appositely , grove is the most general word for a group of trees that carries with it ...
... surely true that this is how the usage must affect readers who are poor Latinists , as most readers now are . Cook is surely right to object : ' More appositely , grove is the most general word for a group of trees that carries with it ...
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... surely true that Wordsworth in practice all too often took over from demotic speech one feature that the language of poetry can not tolerate : that's to say , garrulity . ( Wordsworth is a great poet , however ; though neither Winters ...
... surely true that Wordsworth in practice all too often took over from demotic speech one feature that the language of poetry can not tolerate : that's to say , garrulity . ( Wordsworth is a great poet , however ; though neither Winters ...
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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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