A Milton HandbookAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1961 - 465 pages |
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Page 132
... period of his life from the last year of his attendance at St. Paul's School to the moment at which he undertook the actual composition of Paradise Lost ( i . e . , circa 1655 ) . We are told by Aubrey that he was already a poet at the ...
... period of his life from the last year of his attendance at St. Paul's School to the moment at which he undertook the actual composition of Paradise Lost ( i . e . , circa 1655 ) . We are told by Aubrey that he was already a poet at the ...
Page 370
... period of more serious occupation with them as they were inter- preted and moralized by the poets of the Renaissance . Above all he is thinking of the " solemn cantos " of the " sage and serious " Spenser , who becomes henceforth a ...
... period of more serious occupation with them as they were inter- preted and moralized by the poets of the Renaissance . Above all he is thinking of the " solemn cantos " of the " sage and serious " Spenser , who becomes henceforth a ...
Page 414
... period , but the record of his experi- ences and contacts there is obviously very incomplete . For the visits to Paris and Geneva there is some data . The period in Venice is a complete blank , except that we know that he must have been ...
... period , but the record of his experi- ences and contacts there is obviously very incomplete . For the visits to Paris and Geneva there is some data . The period in Venice is a complete blank , except that we know that he must have been ...
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