A Milton HandbookF. S. Croft & Company, 1946 - 465 pages |
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Page 152
... tradition of the ideal day of pastoral delight goes back to Virgil's Georgics , and it was , as Miss Sara Watson demon- strates , the totality of this tradition which mainly influenced Milton . L'Allegro and Il Penseroso have always ...
... tradition of the ideal day of pastoral delight goes back to Virgil's Georgics , and it was , as Miss Sara Watson demon- strates , the totality of this tradition which mainly influenced Milton . L'Allegro and Il Penseroso have always ...
Page 158
... tradition of the English masque , a type of courtly entertainment introduced from Italy in simple form as early as the time of Henry VIII and developed to its highest point of elaboration by Ben Jonson in the reign of James . The masque ...
... tradition of the English masque , a type of courtly entertainment introduced from Italy in simple form as early as the time of Henry VIII and developed to its highest point of elaboration by Ben Jonson in the reign of James . The masque ...
Page 194
... tradition adopted from antiquity — not con- ventionally , but in such a way as to fill it with significance . The Heavenly Muse ( i . e . , Urania , originally the Muse of astronomy ) is in reality that divine inspiration which re ...
... tradition adopted from antiquity — not con- ventionally , but in such a way as to fill it with significance . The Heavenly Muse ( i . e . , Urania , originally the Muse of astronomy ) is in reality that divine inspiration which re ...
Contents
1 Composition and Publication | 1 |
PARADISE REGAINED AND SAMSON AGONISTES | 12 |
MILTONS FAME AND INFLUENCE | 67 |
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