A Milton HandbookF. S. Crofts & Company, 1946 - 465 pages |
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Page 335
... century critical discussion of Milton concerned his versification . The issue as to the respective merits of blank verse and rhyme was one of long standing . Milton himself , in the foreword to Paradise Lost , had thrown out a challenge ...
... century critical discussion of Milton concerned his versification . The issue as to the respective merits of blank verse and rhyme was one of long standing . Milton himself , in the foreword to Paradise Lost , had thrown out a challenge ...
Page 338
... century passion for poetic melancholy . This is hardly true , for the work of the " Grave- yard School " antedated ... CENTURY . The Miltonic activity of the eighteenth century was not confined to poetic imitation and to the attempt to ...
... century passion for poetic melancholy . This is hardly true , for the work of the " Grave- yard School " antedated ... CENTURY . The Miltonic activity of the eighteenth century was not confined to poetic imitation and to the attempt to ...
Page 345
... century to value his true poetic quality . The decline which may be traced in the popular vogue of Milton through the later nineteenth century and early twentieth century is to be attributed in part to the rise of a modern romantic ...
... century to value his true poetic quality . The decline which may be traced in the popular vogue of Milton through the later nineteenth century and early twentieth century is to be attributed in part to the rise of a modern romantic ...
Contents
1 Composition and Publication | 1 |
PARADISE REGAINED AND SAMSON AGONISTES | 268 |
MILTONS STYLE AND VERSIFICATION | 293 |
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