Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American LiteratureCarcanet, 1992 - 328 עמודים Donald Davie's major essays on British and American writers from Chaucer to Browning. |
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עמוד 78
... appears most plainly when he defends rhyming repartee : But you tell us , this supplying the last half of a verse , or adjoin- ing a whole second to the former , looks more like the design of two , than the answer of one . Suppose we ...
... appears most plainly when he defends rhyming repartee : But you tell us , this supplying the last half of a verse , or adjoin- ing a whole second to the former , looks more like the design of two , than the answer of one . Suppose we ...
עמוד 111
... appears a Hobbesian materialistic cynic , by conviction . The case is quite different when we are dealing with a writer whose conscious intention appears to be to refute the whole materialistic thesis . Swift is such a writer . And when ...
... appears a Hobbesian materialistic cynic , by conviction . The case is quite different when we are dealing with a writer whose conscious intention appears to be to refute the whole materialistic thesis . Swift is such a writer . And when ...
עמוד 282
... appears in nothing so clearly as in the handling of the metre . It was Ellis again , reviewing the poem on its first appearance , who was sorry to see it cast into octosyllabic couplets . If one speaks , in a time - honoured phrase , of ...
... appears in nothing so clearly as in the handling of the metre . It was Ellis again , reviewing the poem on its first appearance , who was sorry to see it cast into octosyllabic couplets . If one speaks , in a time - honoured phrase , of ...
תוכן
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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