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... of the poem as a whole an effect contrived elsewhere also , but nowhere so piercingly . ) Thus , both in what the poem says and in its ways of saying it , Ocean's Love to Cynthia is likely to commend itself to the modern reader .
... of the poem as a whole an effect contrived elsewhere also , but nowhere so piercingly . ) Thus , both in what the poem says and in its ways of saying it , Ocean's Love to Cynthia is likely to commend itself to the modern reader .
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He must maintain that this ambiguity is deliberate , since it is central to the whole argument of the poem as he understands it . If it is pointed out that Ralegh was a pre - Empsonian , to whom it had not occurred that ambiguity was ...
He must maintain that this ambiguity is deliberate , since it is central to the whole argument of the poem as he understands it . If it is pointed out that Ralegh was a pre - Empsonian , to whom it had not occurred that ambiguity was ...
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For the ' we ' of the first line does not mean mankind as a whole , nor Christian mankind as a whole ; nor even Christian Englishmen as a whole . “ We ' means ' We English Dissenters ' . This has to be the case .
For the ' we ' of the first line does not mean mankind as a whole , nor Christian mankind as a whole ; nor even Christian Englishmen as a whole . “ We ' means ' We English Dissenters ' . This has to be the case .
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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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