A Milton HandbookAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1961 - 465 pages |
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Page 152
... tradition of the ideal day of pastoral delight goes back to Virgil's Georgics , and it was , as Miss Sara Watson demon- strates , the totality of this tradition which mainly influenced Milton . L'Allegro and Il Penseroso have always ...
... tradition of the ideal day of pastoral delight goes back to Virgil's Georgics , and it was , as Miss Sara Watson demon- strates , the totality of this tradition which mainly influenced Milton . L'Allegro and Il Penseroso have always ...
Page 171
... tradition ( though his poem is a sonnet in Petrarchan form ) , writes himself gracefully inte the rĂ´le of unsuccessful lovers . The later English sonnets , beginning with the one on his twenty - third birthday , re- flect a complete ...
... tradition ( though his poem is a sonnet in Petrarchan form ) , writes himself gracefully inte the rĂ´le of unsuccessful lovers . The later English sonnets , beginning with the one on his twenty - third birthday , re- flect a complete ...
Page 194
... tradition adopted from antiquity - not con- ventionally , but in such a way as to fill it with significance . The Heavenly Muse ( i . e . , Urania , originally the Muse of astronomy ) is in reality that divine inspiration which re ...
... tradition adopted from antiquity - not con- ventionally , but in such a way as to fill it with significance . The Heavenly Muse ( i . e . , Urania , originally the Muse of astronomy ) is in reality that divine inspiration which re ...
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