A Guide to English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, 1964 |
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Page 62
... classical tragedy of Samson Agonistes , the theme of which symbolizes so much of Milton's fears and hopes for his country and the Puritan cause , we have the last stage of his style . This shows an austere concentration on bare dignity ...
... classical tragedy of Samson Agonistes , the theme of which symbolizes so much of Milton's fears and hopes for his country and the Puritan cause , we have the last stage of his style . This shows an austere concentration on bare dignity ...
Page 126
... classical poems have a racy idiomatic quality , while his most colloquial poems frequently follow classical models . Jonson made no attempt to impose the idiom and syntax of the classical writers on the English language . The spirit in ...
... classical poems have a racy idiomatic quality , while his most colloquial poems frequently follow classical models . Jonson made no attempt to impose the idiom and syntax of the classical writers on the English language . The spirit in ...
Page 128
... classical world to the actualities of seventeenth - century London , with the accompanying sense of ironical contrast , distinguish Jonson from a poet such as Campian , and are a proof of his greatness . Because of the restraint imposed ...
... classical world to the actualities of seventeenth - century London , with the accompanying sense of ironical contrast , distinguish Jonson from a poet such as Campian , and are a proof of his greatness . Because of the restraint imposed ...
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