A Milton HandbookG. Bell, 1929 - 304 pages |
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Page 104
... 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 105
... period of seven years . The more abundant moments of his later life are 1644-46 ( six sonnets ) , April , 1648 ( nine Psalms ) , 1653 ( eight Psalms ) , and 1655-56 ( four son- nets ) . In the following discussion the poems are arranged ...
... period of seven years . The more abundant moments of his later life are 1644-46 ( six sonnets ) , April , 1648 ( nine Psalms ) , 1653 ( eight Psalms ) , and 1655-56 ( four son- nets ) . In the following discussion the poems are arranged ...
Page 278
... 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 ...
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