A Milton HandbookAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1961 - 465 pages |
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Page 182
... drama on this theme constitute the first definite step in the composition of Paradise Lost . Phillips reports that he actually wrote at this time a version of Satan's address to the sun ( Paradise Lost , Book IV , lines 30-41 ) as the ...
... drama on this theme constitute the first definite step in the composition of Paradise Lost . Phillips reports that he actually wrote at this time a version of Satan's address to the sun ( Paradise Lost , Book IV , lines 30-41 ) as the ...
Page 188
... DRAMA TO EPIC . We do not know exactly either when or why Milton abandoned his idea of a drama on the Fall and determined to throw his materials into epic form . It is apparent from the fourth draft that Milton , when he came to ...
... DRAMA TO EPIC . We do not know exactly either when or why Milton abandoned his idea of a drama on the Fall and determined to throw his materials into epic form . It is apparent from the fourth draft that Milton , when he came to ...
Page 409
... drama and not only the choruses were sung . The effort to reproduce these supposed music - dramas of antiquity , influencing and influenced by the native Italian developments in musical and dramatic entertainment , resulted in the ...
... drama and not only the choruses were sung . The effort to reproduce these supposed music - dramas of antiquity , influencing and influenced by the native Italian developments in musical and dramatic entertainment , resulted in the ...
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