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Shakespeare's way of writing verse is at odds with what we normally associate with either ' science ' or ' art ' . We do not have to accept the bardolaters ' illusions about ' piping his native wood - notes wild ' to agree that for ...
Shakespeare's way of writing verse is at odds with what we normally associate with either ' science ' or ' art ' . We do not have to accept the bardolaters ' illusions about ' piping his native wood - notes wild ' to agree that for ...
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book -a sort of prose handed down as a legacy from Dryden to the prose writers of the age of Queen Anne and the first Hanoverians . Thus we are in the position of congratulating prose writers of this period on their good fortune ...
book -a sort of prose handed down as a legacy from Dryden to the prose writers of the age of Queen Anne and the first Hanoverians . Thus we are in the position of congratulating prose writers of this period on their good fortune ...
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Shaftesbury in these passages argues that the difficulty of 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 ...
Shaftesbury in these passages argues that the difficulty of 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 ...
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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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