A Milton HandbookF. S. Crofts & Company, 1926 - 304 pages |
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Page 89
... epic on a British legendary theme . He rejected the Arthurian story in favor of the more significant and authentic biblical theme , but his literary and patriotic interest in the materials continued keen and demanded expression . More ...
... epic on a British legendary theme . He rejected the Arthurian story in favor of the more significant and authentic biblical theme , but his literary and patriotic interest in the materials continued keen and demanded expression . More ...
Page 104
... epic were the great literary forms , and who deliberately shaped his life toward the highest poetic achievement , this experimental and occasional verse was probably trifling . He cherished it sufficiently , however , to publish the ...
... epic were the great literary forms , and who deliberately shaped his life toward the highest poetic achievement , this experimental and occasional verse was probably trifling . He cherished it sufficiently , however , to publish the ...
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... epic poet , and expresses the resolve to live a life of lofty and ascetic consecration to that end . He describes at the close his first attempt at a kind of poetry worthy of himself , the poem On the Morning of Christ's Nativity ...
... epic poet , and expresses the resolve to live a life of lofty and ascetic consecration to that end . He describes at the close his first attempt at a kind of poetry worthy of himself , the poem On the Morning of Christ's Nativity ...
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... epic poets ) has the true Miltonic ring . " ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY " and " THE PASSION . " Milton printed the great Nativity ode , the first serious and lofty work of his genius , as the opening poem in the 1645 edition ...
... epic poets ) has the true Miltonic ring . " ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY " and " THE PASSION . " Milton printed the great Nativity ode , the first serious and lofty work of his genius , as the opening poem in the 1645 edition ...
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... epic poem which he still intended . Volumes have been written in discussion of Milton's sonnets , but their definitive treatment has been the work of the late Mr. J. S. Smart , who has cleared away much error regarding their relation to ...
... epic poem which he still intended . Volumes have been written in discussion of Milton's sonnets , but their definitive treatment has been the work of the late Mr. J. S. Smart , who has cleared away much error regarding their relation to ...
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Page 40 - O thou that with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down 40 Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king: Ah wherefore!
Page 238 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 147 - More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Page 277 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 281 - Nation, the Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral Drama in the Song of Solomon consisting of two persons and a double Chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately Tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn Scenes and Acts with a sevenfold Chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus commenting that book is sufficient to confirm.
Page 242 - Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees...
Page 39 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 240 - Warred on by cranes : though all the giant brood Of Phlegra with the heroic race were joined That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mixed with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
Page 259 - The secrets of th' Abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of Place and Time: The living Throne, the...
Page 69 - Colasterion ; a Reply to A nameless Answer against the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce...