John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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... hand at paraphrase just when he did . About 1621 the elder John Milton had contributed three settings for paraphrases to a volume that became standard for many years , the Whole Book of Psalms , compiled by Thomas Ravenscroft , music ...
... hand at paraphrase just when he did . About 1621 the elder John Milton had contributed three settings for paraphrases to a volume that became standard for many years , the Whole Book of Psalms , compiled by Thomas Ravenscroft , music ...
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... hand " —a poetic release from the " left - hand " prose - it became a form characteristically Miltonic , not only in its becoming a " trumpet , " as Wordsworth said , but in its rhythmic dexterity and virtuosity . As we have seen in ...
... hand " —a poetic release from the " left - hand " prose - it became a form characteristically Miltonic , not only in its becoming a " trumpet , " as Wordsworth said , but in its rhythmic dexterity and virtuosity . As we have seen in ...
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... hand to remove the veil , he experienced the tragedy felt each morning by the recently blind . In the Prologue to Book III of Para- dise Lost , after suggesting that during the night he had been with the Muse , he seems to recall much ...
... hand to remove the veil , he experienced the tragedy felt each morning by the recently blind . In the Prologue to Book III of Para- dise Lost , after suggesting that during the night he had been with the Muse , he seems to recall much ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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