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Page 141
In the description of the rivers Milton imitates Spenser and Browne , as he was later to do in the poem On the Nativity ... and a consecration of himself to a way of life in harmony with the most serious kind of poetic inspiration .
In the description of the rivers Milton imitates Spenser and Browne , as he was later to do in the poem On the Nativity ... and a consecration of himself to a way of life in harmony with the most serious kind of poetic inspiration .
Page 143
Milton indulges occasionally in the exercise of poetic ingenuity.10 These tricks of thought and expression are Milton's legacy from fashion in a period of his development before he had found his own majestic poetic idiom or even , as he ...
Milton indulges occasionally in the exercise of poetic ingenuity.10 These tricks of thought and expression are Milton's legacy from fashion in a period of his development before he had found his own majestic poetic idiom or even , as he ...
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Poetic myth was the only possible way of representing the “ ideas ” to human apprehension and only the poet - seer who had looked on the face of truth unveiled could so represent them . When Milton undertook to write the epic of the ...
Poetic myth was the only possible way of representing the “ ideas ” to human apprehension and only the poet - seer who had looked on the face of truth unveiled could so represent them . When Milton undertook to write the epic of the ...
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