A Milton HandbookAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1961 - 465 pages |
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Page 7
... important items are noted in their proper connection in this volume . Since Milton and his early biographers are often incom- plete , and sometimes inaccurate , in their statements , it will be well to give here a chronological summary ...
... important items are noted in their proper connection in this volume . Since Milton and his early biographers are often incom- plete , and sometimes inaccurate , in their statements , it will be well to give here a chronological summary ...
Page 144
... important anticipations of motives later to be employed in Paradise Lost . Thus the idea that the Pagan divinities are in reality demons , suggested in stanzas XXIV - XXV , is the basic principle of the representation of the fallen ...
... important anticipations of motives later to be employed in Paradise Lost . Thus the idea that the Pagan divinities are in reality demons , suggested in stanzas XXIV - XXV , is the basic principle of the representation of the fallen ...
Page 246
... important and almost equally intangible is Mil- ton's debt to the Greek and Latin fathers of the church . We know from the Commonplace Book that he had studied them thoroughly , beginning with the Horton period , along with his reading ...
... important and almost equally intangible is Mil- ton's debt to the Greek and Latin fathers of the church . We know from the Commonplace Book that he had studied them thoroughly , beginning with the Horton period , along with his reading ...
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