A Milton HandbookAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1961 - 465 pages |
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Page 173
... literary exercise or for the purpose of better adapting them to congregational singing , seems to us now of all literary endeavors the most vain and forbidding . Yet 48 The most elaborate analysis of the technique of Milton's sonnets is ...
... literary exercise or for the purpose of better adapting them to congregational singing , seems to us now of all literary endeavors the most vain and forbidding . Yet 48 The most elaborate analysis of the technique of Milton's sonnets is ...
Page 269
... Literary Program , points out that Milton , in this ecclesiastical pamphlet , is partly concerned to vindicate his respect for ancient literary forms by showing that Christian and even Scriptural writers employed them . ( Cf. the Pref ...
... Literary Program , points out that Milton , in this ecclesiastical pamphlet , is partly concerned to vindicate his respect for ancient literary forms by showing that Christian and even Scriptural writers employed them . ( Cf. the Pref ...
Page 329
... literary and in- tellectual history of the age . In no other time has he had so many readers or been the occasion of so much discus- sion . The frequency of editions increases by leaps and bounds , and the chorus of praise from poets ...
... literary and in- tellectual history of the age . In no other time has he had so many readers or been the occasion of so much discus- sion . The frequency of editions increases by leaps and bounds , and the chorus of praise from poets ...
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