Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature

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Carcanet, 1992 - American literature - 328 pages
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Donald Davie's major essays on British and American writers from Chaucer to Browning.

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Hobhouse hedges carefully , putting quotation - marks around ' spiritual ' , and an explanatory parenthesis after it – ' as God and thought are spiritual ' . One respects him for this caginess , as one respects Spurgeon , on the ...
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He already showed that thought is a disease of flesh , and indirectly bore evidence that ideal physical beauty is incompatible with emotional development and a full recognition of the coil of things . Mental luminousness must be fed ...
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Apparently he thought it quite feasible that St Paul's in London might supplant St Peter's as the metropolitan cathedral of international Christendom – hence the line in his ' Hymn for the Day of St Philip and St James ' , ' In the ...

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Contents

Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972
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A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960
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Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976
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About the author (1992)

Born in Barnsley in 1922, DONALD DAVIE served in the Navy and studied at Cambridge, becoming Professor of English at Essex, and later at Stanford and Vanderbilt. In 1988 he returned to England where he died in 1995. Carcanet's uniform Collected Works of Donald Davie includes Collected Poems (1990), Under Briggflatts (1989), Slavic Excursions (1990), Studies in Ezra Pound (1991), Older Masters (1992), Church, Chapel, and the Unitarian Conspiracy (1995) and Poems and Melodramas (1996). Purity of Diction in English Verse and Articulate Energy (one volume) are also available from Carcanet.

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TitleOlder Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature
G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
AuthorDonald Davie
PublisherCarcanet, 1992
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedFeb 29, 2008
ISBN0856359793, 9780856359798
Length328 pages
  
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