A Milton HandbookAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1961 - 465 pages |
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Page 141
... poetic in- spiration . It is to be remembered that the poet had come of age on the 9th of December in the same year . The subject is a very common one in sixteenth and seventeenth century English poetry . Among the more im- portant of ...
... poetic in- spiration . It is to be remembered that the poet had come of age on the 9th of December in the same year . The subject is a very common one in sixteenth and seventeenth century English poetry . Among the more im- portant of ...
Page 312
... poetry . Rhythm , vocabulary , sentence structure , imagery , all unite in indistinguishable combination to form the majestic garment of Miltonic thought and feeling . Thus the " blank verse paragraph " so often mentioned in discussions ...
... poetry . Rhythm , vocabulary , sentence structure , imagery , all unite in indistinguishable combination to form the majestic garment of Miltonic thought and feeling . Thus the " blank verse paragraph " so often mentioned in discussions ...
Page 370
... poet is so closely parallel to that in the Apology as to make it clear that in the quoted passage Milton is looking ... poetry the study of philosophy . The character of his reference and his bracketing of Plato and Xenophon show very ...
... poet is so closely parallel to that in the Apology as to make it clear that in the quoted passage Milton is looking ... poetry the study of philosophy . The character of his reference and his bracketing of Plato and Xenophon show very ...
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