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Ancient epic — the Iliad , the Odyssey , and the Aeneid — furnishes Milton with his authoritative model of form and structure as Scripture does of substance and interpretation . The classical epic conventions were , of course , fixed by ...
Ancient epic — the Iliad , the Odyssey , and the Aeneid — furnishes Milton with his authoritative model of form and structure as Scripture does of substance and interpretation . The classical epic conventions were , of course , fixed by ...
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ITALIAN ROMANTIC EPIC ; SPENSER ; THE FLETCHERS ; SHAKESPEARE ; Marlowe . It would naturally be expected that Milton's enthusiasm for the Renaissance masters of romantic narrative , which must have dominated his purpose so long as he ...
ITALIAN ROMANTIC EPIC ; SPENSER ; THE FLETCHERS ; SHAKESPEARE ; Marlowe . It would naturally be expected that Milton's enthusiasm for the Renaissance masters of romantic narrative , which must have dominated his purpose so long as he ...
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In The Reason of Church Government ( see Appendix B ) he had mentioned , as literary forms sanctioned by classical or Biblical precedent , the long epic , the brief epic ( like the Book of Job ) , and the drama .
In The Reason of Church Government ( see Appendix B ) he had mentioned , as literary forms sanctioned by classical or Biblical precedent , the long epic , the brief epic ( like the Book of Job ) , and the drama .
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