John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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Page viii
... language of poetry should be less far removed from the language of prose , that it should be more conversational and employ more of the language of everyday , as Dryden in his time and the authors of the Lyrical Ballads in theirs also ...
... language of poetry should be less far removed from the language of prose , that it should be more conversational and employ more of the language of everyday , as Dryden in his time and the authors of the Lyrical Ballads in theirs also ...
Page xi
... language of the early poems is often as " conversational " as even T. S. Eliot could desire . So too is much of the language of Paradise Regained . The difficulty modern readers may find at first with Paradise Lost arises less from ...
... language of the early poems is often as " conversational " as even T. S. Eliot could desire . So too is much of the language of Paradise Regained . The difficulty modern readers may find at first with Paradise Lost arises less from ...
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... language . In the four lower forms , the boys ' time was spent in learning Latin grammar and conversation , in reading simpler Latin literature and in writing essays and themes in Latin , following models assigned to them . The study of ...
... language . In the four lower forms , the boys ' time was spent in learning Latin grammar and conversation , in reading simpler Latin literature and in writing essays and themes in Latin , following models assigned to them . The study of ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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