John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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... sense , " arrive before them , " because he was an unknown young singer and his gift much more humble than theirs . When he said in his sonnet on Fairfax , " Thy firm unshaken virtue ever brings Vic- tory home , " the word virtue has ...
... sense , " arrive before them , " because he was an unknown young singer and his gift much more humble than theirs . When he said in his sonnet on Fairfax , " Thy firm unshaken virtue ever brings Vic- tory home , " the word virtue has ...
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... sense , I shall delineate so , By likening spiritual to corporeal forms As may express them best . ( V. 571-74 ) Indeed , Raphael encounters difficulty at once , when he speaks of the " day " on which trouble began in Heaven , for in ...
... sense , I shall delineate so , By likening spiritual to corporeal forms As may express them best . ( V. 571-74 ) Indeed , Raphael encounters difficulty at once , when he speaks of the " day " on which trouble began in Heaven , for in ...
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... sense of the word , a matter that had been debated pro and con by Christians long before Milton wrote . Apart from this passing reference , the mood of the ending is another Hebraic song of exultation rather than mourning over the death ...
... sense of the word , a matter that had been debated pro and con by Christians long before Milton wrote . Apart from this passing reference , the mood of the ending is another Hebraic song of exultation rather than mourning over the death ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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