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Page 68
And this , which is plainly not true of Taylor's poetry , seems to be equally untrue of many American poets since Taylor . When I read their poems - I think for the moment of a poet so widely read and widely publicized as Robert Lowell ...
And this , which is plainly not true of Taylor's poetry , seems to be equally untrue of many American poets since Taylor . When I read their poems - I think for the moment of a poet so widely read and widely publicized as Robert Lowell ...
Page 75
But this is typical of the whole essay ; Dryden has to sidestep the crux of any argument . It is only shadow - boxing after all . It is true enough , however , if we allow ourselves to supply the missing crux ( as we have to ) , that we ...
But this is typical of the whole essay ; Dryden has to sidestep the crux of any argument . It is only shadow - boxing after all . It is true enough , however , if we allow ourselves to supply the missing crux ( as we have to ) , that we ...
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... he insists , is no more true of the earlier poetry than the later . A drier word than ' eerie ' would be ' unaccountable ' . For no one has yet accounted for it , except on the disreputable grounds that nothing succeeds like success ...
... he insists , is no more true of the earlier poetry than the later . A drier word than ' eerie ' would be ' unaccountable ' . For no one has yet accounted for it , except on the disreputable grounds that nothing succeeds like success ...
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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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