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Page 172
His formal model is not the English sonnet , with its tendency to close with a couplet , but the Italian originals which , on the whole , avoided such an ending . It is not true that he violates Italian precedent by failing to preserve ...
His formal model is not the English sonnet , with its tendency to close with a couplet , but the Italian originals which , on the whole , avoided such an ending . It is not true that he violates Italian precedent by failing to preserve ...
Page 187
The order of events in the epic is on the whole that of the fourth draft , but there are some interesting alterations . Thus , in the poem , freed from the necessity of preserving unity of place , Milton can begin with Satan on the ...
The order of events in the epic is on the whole that of the fourth draft , but there are some interesting alterations . Thus , in the poem , freed from the necessity of preserving unity of place , Milton can begin with Satan on the ...
Page 301
The whole treasury of poetry and the whole storehouse of learning are at his command . He assumes that they are also at the command of his reader and accordingly he loads every rift of his verse with the ore of myth and legend ...
The whole treasury of poetry and the whole storehouse of learning are at his command . He assumes that they are also at the command of his reader and accordingly he loads every rift of his verse with the ore of myth and legend ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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