John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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... meaning of " physical strength " and " moral excellence . " One of the best examples of the double meaning of a word in its original and derived sense is Let none admire That riches grow in Hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious ...
... meaning of " physical strength " and " moral excellence . " One of the best examples of the double meaning of a word in its original and derived sense is Let none admire That riches grow in Hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious ...
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... meaning . Surely there was never a more strangely compounded thing than Lycidas . Surely there was never a more astonishing in- stance of the wizardry of the imagination than this , where at a compelling word a hundred motley and ...
... meaning . Surely there was never a more strangely compounded thing than Lycidas . Surely there was never a more astonishing in- stance of the wizardry of the imagination than this , where at a compelling word a hundred motley and ...
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... meaning that they become the despair of critics who spend their ingenuity in trying to find still more cryptic meanings . Let us not stop over the many interpretations that have been made of this apparently mixed metaphor . Ruskin was ...
... meaning that they become the despair of critics who spend their ingenuity in trying to find still more cryptic meanings . Let us not stop over the many interpretations that have been made of this apparently mixed metaphor . Ruskin was ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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