A Milton HandbookF. S. Crofts & Company, 1946 - 465 pages |
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Page 250
... LITERATURE . Paradise Lost , as a Biblical and didactic epic , belongs to a tradition which reaches back to the early centuries of Christian Latin culture and persists in full vigor through the Renaissance . Among the earliest of these ...
... LITERATURE . Paradise Lost , as a Biblical and didactic epic , belongs to a tradition which reaches back to the early centuries of Christian Latin culture and persists in full vigor through the Renaissance . Among the earliest of these ...
Page 252
... literature which interprets the Biblical account of the creation , inter- mingling with simple exegesis an immense amount of phil- osophical and scientific material from various sources . " 1 Among the writers of such commentaries were ...
... literature which interprets the Biblical account of the creation , inter- mingling with simple exegesis an immense amount of phil- osophical and scientific material from various sources . " 1 Among the writers of such commentaries were ...
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... literature before Milton . The unique thing is the degree to which they be- come in him habitual features of style - the warp and woof of his poetical expression . Spenser , of course , uses archa- isms much more persistently than ...
... literature before Milton . The unique thing is the degree to which they be- come in him habitual features of style - the warp and woof of his poetical expression . Spenser , of course , uses archa- isms much more persistently than ...
Contents
PARADISE REGAINED AND SAMSON AGONISTES | 12 |
MILTONS STYLE AND VERSIFICATION | 151 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 422 |
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