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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... writing must have been something far less premeditated and considered than what we nowadays associate with either ' science ' or ' art ' , if we take either of those words seriously . And this explains why and how we may find Jonson a ...
... writing must have been something far less premeditated and considered than what we nowadays associate with either ' science ' or ' art ' , if we take either of those words seriously . And this explains why and how we may find Jonson a ...
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... writer is nevertheless tacitly and unconsciously influenced by the accepted conventions of public speech and writing in that culture . ' But there is a possible implication here that I find unacceptable . Since it is one that bears more ...
... writer is nevertheless tacitly and unconsciously influenced by the accepted conventions of public speech and writing in that culture . ' But there is a possible implication here that I find unacceptable . Since it is one that bears more ...
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... writing the philosophical dialogue in the early eighteenth century derived from a deep - seated intellectual insecurity in English society of that time - not the sort of thing we are invited to think about the English Augustan Age ...
... writing the philosophical dialogue in the early eighteenth century derived from a deep - seated intellectual insecurity in English society of that time - not the sort of thing we are invited to think about the English Augustan Age ...
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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