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If Ralegh was thinking of the poem as written in quatrains ( as he surely was , despite occasional five - line stanzas , tercets , and unattached couplets like this one ) there can be no doubt that this represents a place where Ralegh ...
If Ralegh was thinking of the poem as written in quatrains ( as he surely was , despite occasional five - line stanzas , tercets , and unattached couplets like this one ) there can be no doubt that this represents a place where Ralegh ...
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For instance the body .. bruised to pleasure soul ' is surely a sort of shorthand not just for the flagellations and mortifications of religious asceticism , but also for that Romantic tradition of sexual passion which comes from the ...
For instance the body .. bruised to pleasure soul ' is surely a sort of shorthand not just for the flagellations and mortifications of religious asceticism , but also for that Romantic tradition of sexual passion which comes from the ...
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And it is 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 ...
And it is 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 ...
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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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