A Milton HandbookF. S. Crofts & Company, 1954 - 465 pages |
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Page 271
... Christ's life are introduced in retrospect and the later by implication . The elaboration of detail is largely the work of Milton's own thought and imagination , but Spen- ser and his successor Giles Fletcher furnished suggestions of no ...
... Christ's life are introduced in retrospect and the later by implication . The elaboration of detail is largely the work of Milton's own thought and imagination , but Spen- ser and his successor Giles Fletcher furnished suggestions of no ...
Page 272
... Christ , therefore , becomes a symbol of temperance , less explicitly but not less certainly , than Spenser's Sir Guion . The influence of Giles Fletcher's Christ's Victory and Triumph , though the poem deals directly with the ...
... Christ , therefore , becomes a symbol of temperance , less explicitly but not less certainly , than Spenser's Sir Guion . The influence of Giles Fletcher's Christ's Victory and Triumph , though the poem deals directly with the ...
Page 274
... Christ's successful foiling of the tempter is the logi- cal counterpart of Adam's succumbing to his wiles . The invocation is made directly to the Divine Spirit , and not , as in Paradise Lost , to a Muse or other symbol . The starting ...
... Christ's successful foiling of the tempter is the logi- cal counterpart of Adam's succumbing to his wiles . The invocation is made directly to the Divine Spirit , and not , as in Paradise Lost , to a Muse or other symbol . The starting ...
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