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 32
... follow Dante without talent , you will at worst be pedestrian and flat ; if you follow Shakespeare or Pope without talent , you will make an utter fool of yourself . In fact , Eliot was surely excessive and ungenerous when he declared ...
... follow Dante without talent , you will at worst be pedestrian and flat ; if you follow Shakespeare or Pope without talent , you will make an utter fool of yourself . In fact , Eliot was surely excessive and ungenerous when he declared ...
עמוד 84
... follows ( p.88 ) : It may very well be that many poets [ i.e. of the eighteenth century ] accepted the idea of a ... follow that poetry's needs were similar . This is the extreme conclusion . It is , of course , truer of some poets than ...
... follows ( p.88 ) : It may very well be that many poets [ i.e. of the eighteenth century ] accepted the idea of a ... follow that poetry's needs were similar . This is the extreme conclusion . It is , of course , truer of some poets than ...
עמוד 95
... follow the clue provided by Mallarmé , his reminder that poetry is made not of ideas but of words , we see the ... follows perhaps that the poet is less interested than the prose writer in the ' stability ' of the language he uses ...
... follow the clue provided by Mallarmé , his reminder that poetry is made not of ideas but of words , we see the ... follows perhaps that the poet is less interested than the prose writer in the ' stability ' of the language he uses ...
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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