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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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I don't feel better for having read
Hi.
"Naming the contenders for the best collection prize – Colette Bryce, http://www.theguardian.com/books/john-burnside, Louise Glück, Kei Miller and Hugo Williams– Paxman said there was a "whole pile of really good poems here", and "nothing on the shortlist that I don't feel better for having read"." [From The Guardian.]
What does the clause I don't feel better for having read mean in the context?
There are two negatives in the clause "nothing on the shortlist that I don't feel better for having read"; one, nothing, in the introductory verbless (and main?) clause and second, don't feel, in the subordinate one which confuses me.
Thank you.
"Naming the contenders for the best collection prize – Colette Bryce, http://www.theguardian.com/books/john-burnside, Louise Glück, Kei Miller and Hugo Williams– Paxman said there was a "whole pile of really good poems here", and "nothing on the shortlist that I don't feel better for having read"." [From The Guardian.]
What does the clause I don't feel better for having read mean in the context?
There are two negatives in the clause "nothing on the shortlist that I don't feel better for having read"; one, nothing, in the introductory verbless (and main?) clause and second, don't feel, in the subordinate one which confuses me.
Thank you.
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that I don't feel better for having read There is no poem that has not made him feel better after reading it: every poem has been satisfying to read.
- that I don't feel better for having read There is no poem that has not made him feel better after reading it: every poem has been satisfying to read.
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Anonymous nothing...that I don't feel better for having readThere is no poem that has not made him feel better after reading it: every poem has been satisfying to read.
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