John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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Page 152
... tion days , " when parents and friends came to visit , each of us was told off to perform some task in public , and since I — who could not sew or draw or do anything really useful - could analyze and parse , I was told that I might ...
... tion days , " when parents and friends came to visit , each of us was told off to perform some task in public , and since I — who could not sew or draw or do anything really useful - could analyze and parse , I was told that I might ...
Page 325
... tion writer for the conversational simplicity of both his prose and his poetry . Milton could not have been unaware of what was hap- pening to the literature of his period . It is conceivable , therefore , that in Paradise Regained he ...
... tion writer for the conversational simplicity of both his prose and his poetry . Milton could not have been unaware of what was hap- pening to the literature of his period . It is conceivable , therefore , that in Paradise Regained he ...
Page 345
... tion Christ makes between learning and wisdom is similar in some ways to the distinction Raphael made to Adam between the " dis- cursive ” and the " intuitive " Reason . The angels had no need of learning , no need for ratiocination ...
... tion Christ makes between learning and wisdom is similar in some ways to the distinction Raphael made to Adam between the " dis- cursive ” and the " intuitive " Reason . The angels had no need of learning , no need for ratiocination ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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