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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1 Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness Before I read Ian Robinson's Chaucer and the English Tradition , I had thought that its title meant something like ' The Chaucerian Tradition in English Poetry ' . I looked forward to essays which ...
1 Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness Before I read Ian Robinson's Chaucer and the English Tradition , I had thought that its title meant something like ' The Chaucerian Tradition in English Poetry ' . I looked forward to essays which ...
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In a very valuable essay , ' Tristram Shandy and the Tradition of Learned Wit ' , ' D.W . Jefferson has shown that when Sterne adopted Lockean psychology as a structural principle in Tristram Shandy , he was exploiting contemporary ...
In a very valuable essay , ' Tristram Shandy and the Tradition of Learned Wit ' , ' D.W . Jefferson has shown that when Sterne adopted Lockean psychology as a structural principle in Tristram Shandy , he was exploiting contemporary ...
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As a result , he says , “ although we do not look for jokes among the serious students of Newton and Locke ' , yet ' a person brought up in the old tradition of wit might well find that some of the ideas of Newton and Locke suited his ...
As a result , he says , “ although we do not look for jokes among the serious students of Newton and Locke ' , yet ' a person brought up in the old tradition of wit might well find that some of the ideas of Newton and Locke suited his ...
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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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