A Milton HandbookF. S. Crofts & Company, 1954 - 465 pages |
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Page 227
... Poetic myth was the only possible way of representing the " ideas " to human apprehension and only the poet - seer who had looked on the face of truth unveiled could so represent them . When Milton undertook to write the epic of the ...
... Poetic myth was the only possible way of representing the " ideas " to human apprehension and only the poet - seer who had looked on the face of truth unveiled could so represent them . When Milton undertook to write the epic of the ...
Page 336
... poetic originality was all too ready to adopt . It served to cover the bareness of whole acres of descriptive and ... poetic imitation . 10 The Influence of Milton on English Poetry . This learned and important work is my chief source of ...
... poetic originality was all too ready to adopt . It served to cover the bareness of whole acres of descriptive and ... poetic imitation . 10 The Influence of Milton on English Poetry . This learned and important work is my chief source of ...
Page 338
... poetic enthusiasm with precision of work- manship and restraint of mood made them , as Havens re- marks , particularly adapted to a transition stage between classicism and romanticism . Both Collins and Gray were inspired by them and ...
... poetic enthusiasm with precision of work- manship and restraint of mood made them , as Havens re- marks , particularly adapted to a transition stage between classicism and romanticism . Both Collins and Gray were inspired by them and ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
I | 117 |
PARADISE REGAINED AND SAMSON AGONISTES | 268 |
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