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... context . Each volume gives a coherent account of a clearly defined area , and the series , when complete , will offer a practical and comprehensive guide to literature written in English from Anglo- Saxon times to the present . The aim ...
... context . Each volume gives a coherent account of a clearly defined area , and the series , when complete , will offer a practical and comprehensive guide to literature written in English from Anglo- Saxon times to the present . The aim ...
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... context of court and of a single mistress has gone , to be replaced by the flux and variety of the poet's mind , which , as it reaches out for illustration and explication , may go anywhere . Donne's lyric achievement is paradoxical ...
... context of court and of a single mistress has gone , to be replaced by the flux and variety of the poet's mind , which , as it reaches out for illustration and explication , may go anywhere . Donne's lyric achievement is paradoxical ...
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... context for discourse . For Denham topography is such a context in two main and overlapping ways . Firstly , the geographical locus is the context for discourse in a pass- age such as the selective survey of English monarchy which ...
... context for discourse . For Denham topography is such a context in two main and overlapping ways . Firstly , the geographical locus is the context for discourse in a pass- age such as the selective survey of English monarchy which ...
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