John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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... believed in dragons , as we believed in fairies , know that this is just what a dragon would do . In these lines the “ Latinate ” Milton uses only one Latin word , " horror . " For the rest he speaks good Anglo Saxon , and best of all ...
... believed in dragons , as we believed in fairies , know that this is just what a dragon would do . In these lines the “ Latinate ” Milton uses only one Latin word , " horror . " For the rest he speaks good Anglo Saxon , and best of all ...
Page 126
... believed that the regulations about divorce were far too rigid , though the reception of his tracts by some of his own party , which he reports in the sonnet on Tetrachordon , shows that his position was not the prevailing one even ...
... believed that the regulations about divorce were far too rigid , though the reception of his tracts by some of his own party , which he reports in the sonnet on Tetrachordon , shows that his position was not the prevailing one even ...
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... believed that one who would write a poem " doctrinal to a nation " must be a " learned " poet . For his great poem he needed to turn to books , as does a scholar , who is far more dependent on his eyes than is a novelist or lyric poet ...
... believed that one who would write a poem " doctrinal to a nation " must be a " learned " poet . For his great poem he needed to turn to books , as does a scholar , who is far more dependent on his eyes than is a novelist or lyric poet ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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