Milton: A Collection of Critical Essays, Volume 10Louis Lohr Martz Prentice-Hall, 1966 - 212 pages Critical essays about John Milton and his works. |
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Page 83
... character . His theory , briefly , is that a ' bad ' character is always easier to draw than a ' good ' one , for ' to make a character worse than oneself it is only necessary to release im- aginatively from control some of the bad ...
... character . His theory , briefly , is that a ' bad ' character is always easier to draw than a ' good ' one , for ' to make a character worse than oneself it is only necessary to release im- aginatively from control some of the bad ...
Page 84
... character we do not usually mean drawing a saint . The character of a saint is perhaps difficult to draw , for at least it takes us into a limiting ( in a sense into a freakish ) region of human experience . And does not that rather ...
... character we do not usually mean drawing a saint . The character of a saint is perhaps difficult to draw , for at least it takes us into a limiting ( in a sense into a freakish ) region of human experience . And does not that rather ...
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... character ' . Perhaps Satan never was a ' character ' in the full sense of the word : a tremendous emblem , rather , giving the illusion , through two tremendous books , of life . I do not think he gives that illusion any longer . Why ...
... character ' . Perhaps Satan never was a ' character ' in the full sense of the word : a tremendous emblem , rather , giving the illusion , through two tremendous books , of life . I do not think he gives that illusion any longer . Why ...
Contents
Introduction by Louis L Martz | 1 |
A Note on the Verse of John Milton by T S Eliot | 12 |
The Pastoral of the Innocence of | 19 |
Copyright | |
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ab extra Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid angels appear beauty begins Belial Bentley blank verse Book XI C. S. Lewis century Chaos character Christ counterplot course created creation critics death devils diction divine dramatic E. M. W. Tillyard earth effect Eliot Empson English epic essay Eve's evil F. T. Prince fact faith fall feel final fruit garden give God's grandeur heaven Hell horror human imagery imagination innocence irony Italian John Milton knowledge language lines live Macbeth means Milton Milton's style mind moral narrative nature once Paradise Lost passage passion peace Pearce perhaps poem poet poetic poetry Raphael reader reason rebels Satan seems sense Serpent simile soliloquy Sonetto speech spirit suggest T. S. Eliot Tasso's thee theme things thir thou thought tion true University virtue vision Waldock whole words