A Milton HandbookF. S. Croft & Company, 1946 - 465 pages |
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Page 90
... whole philosophy . It was because he thought nobly of mar- riage as a spiritual rather than a merely physical union that he resented the common idea that it was dissoluble only on physical grounds . The idea of an external compulsion ...
... whole philosophy . It was because he thought nobly of mar- riage as a spiritual rather than a merely physical union that he resented the common idea that it was dissoluble only on physical grounds . The idea of an external compulsion ...
Page 172
... whole , avoided such an ending . It is not true that he violates Italian precedent by failing to preserve a rhetorical pause at the exact conclusion of the octave . This is a principle of Petrarch but not of some Italian sonneteers ...
... whole , avoided such an ending . It is not true that he violates Italian precedent by failing to preserve a rhetorical pause at the exact conclusion of the octave . This is a principle of Petrarch but not of some Italian sonneteers ...
Page 187
... whole that of the fourth draft , but there are some interesting altera- tions . Thus , in the poem , freed from the necessity of pre- serving unity of place , Milton can begin with Satan on the burning lake and introduce the ...
... whole that of the fourth draft , but there are some interesting altera- tions . Thus , in the poem , freed from the necessity of pre- serving unity of place , Milton can begin with Satan on the burning lake and introduce the ...
Contents
1 Composition and Publication | 1 |
PARADISE REGAINED AND SAMSON AGONISTES | 12 |
MILTONS FAME AND INFLUENCE | 67 |
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