Question 7

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Question #6 answer explains that "author has been explaining and defending the idea that Davie's criticism provides the best basis for studying Davie's poetry" so... why is A wrong on #7?

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This is a classic.

I'm sure you have heard someone say: "I disagree with everything you have said but I would defend to the death your right to say it." The author is defending the use of Davie's criticism (Q6) to analyze Davie's poems; however, the author does not defend Davie's criticism (Q7, A). In fact, the author states: "In this paper, I have used the criticism of Donald Davie as a gloss on Davie's own poetry, taking the criticism not necessarily as an objective description of the real workings of the poetry but, as Alden might suggest, as an indication of Davie's goals as a poet." Thus he does not defend the criticism but rather says that it is "not necessarily objective" (thus cannot necessarily be relied on).

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