A Milton HandbookF. S. Crofts & Company, 1946 - 465 pages |
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Page 136
... close his first attempt at a kind of poetry worthy of himself , the poem On the Morning of Christ's Nativity . Finally , in the Epitaphium Damonis ( 1641 ) , he pays a noble tribute in the form of a carefully wrought pastoral elegy to ...
... close his first attempt at a kind of poetry worthy of himself , the poem On the Morning of Christ's Nativity . Finally , in the Epitaphium Damonis ( 1641 ) , he pays a noble tribute in the form of a carefully wrought pastoral elegy to ...
Page 158
... close . The subject matter of the masque is al- most always a combination of mythology and allegory , adapted in the Elizabethan manner to the social occasion for which the masque is written . In the composition of masques delicacy and ...
... close . The subject matter of the masque is al- most always a combination of mythology and allegory , adapted in the Elizabethan manner to the social occasion for which the masque is written . In the composition of masques delicacy and ...
Page 311
... close , allowed to have place , as if to reassure us that no powers which he once possessed are lost . He points out also that the remoteness of Milton's mature manner , which has been disliked by some critics , is in conformity with ...
... close , allowed to have place , as if to reassure us that no powers which he once possessed are lost . He points out also that the remoteness of Milton's mature manner , which has been disliked by some critics , is in conformity with ...
Contents
1 Composition and Publication | 1 |
PARADISE REGAINED AND SAMSON AGONISTES | 268 |
MILTONS STYLE AND VERSIFICATION | 293 |
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