John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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... speeches . The Lady wins the debate - but Comus ' are the more beautiful and persuasive lines , as are Delilah's in her debate with Samson . Milton was as impatient as Bacon of scholastic logic , but Belilal's speech in the Council ...
... speeches . The Lady wins the debate - but Comus ' are the more beautiful and persuasive lines , as are Delilah's in her debate with Samson . Milton was as impatient as Bacon of scholastic logic , but Belilal's speech in the Council ...
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... speech as reflecting Milton's own attitude , and yet to accept Samson Agonistes as Milton's final work , ( as most of these critics do ) seems to me " to make strange contradiction . " If we must persist in the perversity of reading an ...
... speech as reflecting Milton's own attitude , and yet to accept Samson Agonistes as Milton's final work , ( as most of these critics do ) seems to me " to make strange contradiction . " If we must persist in the perversity of reading an ...
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... speech is one of Milton's greatest . That long training in debate had never served him better . He could and did give the Devil his due to such an extent as to persuade Blake that he was of the Devil's party . As he paraphrased the ...
... speech is one of Milton's greatest . That long training in debate had never served him better . He could and did give the Devil his due to such an extent as to persuade Blake that he was of the Devil's party . As he paraphrased the ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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