Milton Criticism: Selections from Four CenturiesJames Thorpe Octagon Books, 1966 - 376 pages |
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... epic poem , particularly in the actions which he ascribes to Sin and Death , and the picture which he draws of the Limbo of Vanity , with other passages in the second book . Such allegories rather savour of the spirit of Spenser and ...
... epic poem , particularly in the actions which he ascribes to Sin and Death , and the picture which he draws of the Limbo of Vanity , with other passages in the second book . Such allegories rather savour of the spirit of Spenser and ...
Page 147
... epic poem , deserving a place independent of but equal to the epic forms invented by Homer and Virgil.3 It is unnecessary in this place to pronounce on the respec- tive merits of these viewpoints . We have only to note that the ...
... epic poem , deserving a place independent of but equal to the epic forms invented by Homer and Virgil.3 It is unnecessary in this place to pronounce on the respec- tive merits of these viewpoints . We have only to note that the ...
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... epic aims at an even higher solemnity than the Primary ; but it has lost all those external aids to solemnity which the Primary enjoyed . There is no robed and garlanded aoidos , no altar , not even a feast in a hall — only a private ...
... epic aims at an even higher solemnity than the Primary ; but it has lost all those external aids to solemnity which the Primary enjoyed . There is no robed and garlanded aoidos , no altar , not even a feast in a hall — only a private ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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