A Milton HandbookF. S. Croft & Company, 1946 - 465 pages |
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Page 152
... suggestion for his own . The opening of Il Penseroso is plainly reminis- cent of a song in Beaumont and Fletcher's Nice Valour , in which " vain delights " are banished and " lovely melancholy " welcomed in a formula identical with ...
... suggestion for his own . The opening of Il Penseroso is plainly reminis- cent of a song in Beaumont and Fletcher's Nice Valour , in which " vain delights " are banished and " lovely melancholy " welcomed in a formula identical with ...
Page 208
... suggestion of a disproportion in God's creation a tendency to pick flaws in , rather than to admire , the scheme of things . He throws out a hint of the Copernican system in partial solution of these human doubts ( lines 122 ff ...
... suggestion of a disproportion in God's creation a tendency to pick flaws in , rather than to admire , the scheme of things . He throws out a hint of the Copernican system in partial solution of these human doubts ( lines 122 ff ...
Page 254
... suggestion for writing it from having seen a performance of this play on his Italian journey . The relationship is apparently con- firmed by similarities , not so much in Paradise Lost itself as in the early dramatic plans in the ...
... suggestion for writing it from having seen a performance of this play on his Italian journey . The relationship is apparently con- firmed by similarities , not so much in Paradise Lost itself as in the early dramatic plans in the ...
Contents
1 Composition and Publication | 1 |
PARADISE REGAINED AND SAMSON AGONISTES | 12 |
MILTONS FAME AND INFLUENCE | 67 |
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