A guide to English literature. 3. From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Penguin Books, 1956 |
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Page 10
... reader with four kinds of related material : ( i ) An account of the social context of literature in each period , at- tempting to answer such questions as ' Why did the literature of this period deal with this rather than that kind of ...
... reader with four kinds of related material : ( i ) An account of the social context of literature in each period , at- tempting to answer such questions as ' Why did the literature of this period deal with this rather than that kind of ...
Page 176
... reader of Milton's poetry is not , indeed , the nature of his theological doctrine or his value as a moral teacher , but the extent to which theology and morality are transmuted into poetry . But no estimate of his poetry can be arrived ...
... reader of Milton's poetry is not , indeed , the nature of his theological doctrine or his value as a moral teacher , but the extent to which theology and morality are transmuted into poetry . But no estimate of his poetry can be arrived ...
Page 178
... reader can easily see the marked differ- ence between the jerky , flat language of the ' arguments ' and the evocative language of the poem . An analysis of the differences be- tween the two would elicit many points on Milton's verse ...
... reader can easily see the marked differ- ence between the jerky , flat language of the ' arguments ' and the evocative language of the poem . An analysis of the differences be- tween the two would elicit many points on Milton's verse ...
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