John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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Page 133
... write the epic to which he had long felt “ called . ” If he was not to do great things himself , he would at least ... write rapidly and vehemently in both Latin and English . Milton was that man . He had already proved himself a danger ...
... write the epic to which he had long felt “ called . ” If he was not to do great things himself , he would at least ... write rapidly and vehemently in both Latin and English . Milton was that man . He had already proved himself a danger ...
Page 138
... write in support of his party . The most important publication of these years is one of the greatest of Milton's prose works - second only to Areopagitica stylistically and surpassing the oration in some ways in mood : the Defensio ...
... write in support of his party . The most important publication of these years is one of the greatest of Milton's prose works - second only to Areopagitica stylistically and surpassing the oration in some ways in mood : the Defensio ...
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... write a great Christian epic . There is only passing allusion to his blindness , in the word " dark- ness . " Primarily he is concerned with the question whether an age as degenerate as the one in which he is living can understand or ...
... write a great Christian epic . There is only passing allusion to his blindness , in the word " dark- ness . " Primarily he is concerned with the question whether an age as degenerate as the one in which he is living can understand or ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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