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Page 141
It is to be remembered that the poet had come of age on the 9th of December in the same year . The subject is a very common one in sixteenth and seventeenth century English poetry . Among the more important of Milton's immediate ...
It is to be remembered that the poet had come of age on the 9th of December in the same year . The subject is a very common one in sixteenth and seventeenth century English poetry . Among the more important of Milton's immediate ...
Page 312
It should be said at the outset that the most complete scientific description of Miltonic prosody would carry us but a little way toward an understanding of the total effect produced by his poetry . Rhythm , vocabulary , sentence ...
It should be said at the outset that the most complete scientific description of Miltonic prosody would carry us but a little way toward an understanding of the total effect produced by his poetry . Rhythm , vocabulary , sentence ...
Page 370
The formula given in this work for the discipline of an epic poet is so closely parallel to that in the Apology as to make it clear that in the quoted passage Milton is looking back to and thinking in terms of his meditation of 1629.
The formula given in this work for the discipline of an epic poet is so closely parallel to that in the Apology as to make it clear that in the quoted passage Milton is looking back to and thinking in terms of his meditation of 1629.
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| Title | A Milton Handbook |
| Author | James Holly Hanford |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | F. S. Crofts & Company, 1946 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 465 pages |
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