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Excerpt from George Eliot, Middlemarch The author seems emotionally committed here, yet the ugly duckling analogy and such a phrase as 'its own oary-footed kind' still keep up a suspicion of irony, while the phrase 'foundress of nothing' could be read equally as compassionate or de¿ating. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reprodu...

God and the Poets encapsulates many of Daiches's key interests, ranging as it does from the Psalms and the Book of Job to 20th-century Scottish and American poetry. In enquiring into the relationship between poets, poetry and the divinity, Daiches is exploring humanity's creative engagement with spirituality. Beginning with Job's challenge to God, Daiches moves through medieval Hebrew poetry, Dante, Milton, and English, Scottish and American p...

A work by an eminent critic which addresses itself to values in literature, and attempts to answer the simple and elusive question, "Why read a work of imaginative literature?

In the later twentieth century Robert Burns was sorely in need of commentators to provide fuller analysis of a figure whose cultural reputation too often overshadowed his literary achievement. The brilliance of David Daiches as a literary critic filled much of the gap. His readings are a cornerstone of modern Burns studies.' Gerry Carruthers, Director, Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow An Edinburgh graduate in the 1930s, t...

Why do we spend time reading and discussing books which tell of events which never in fact occurred?" The question is elementary - and yet, as David Daiches suggests in this provocative study, it is the elementary questions that are never answered. Although literary criticism today is more concerned with technique than with the basic question of value, the question of value underlies all the others. Professor Daiches therefore directs this boo...

In this historical anthology, Daiches presents a vivid kaleidoscope of impressions of Edinburgh that splendidly recreate the spirit of the place. Illustrations & maps.