Milton Criticism: Selections from Four CenturiesJames Thorpe Octagon Books, 1966 - 376 pages |
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... true wisdom and goodness has the greatest tendency to our happiness . In this use of poetry , and not its power over us , consists its real , its most important dignity . Poetry pleases by a peculiarity and majesty of style and lan ...
... true wisdom and goodness has the greatest tendency to our happiness . In this use of poetry , and not its power over us , consists its real , its most important dignity . Poetry pleases by a peculiarity and majesty of style and lan ...
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... true , but it is to be doubted if the poet himself would have valued an immortality of fame accorded to him only on such terms . The theme of his epic was to him no poetic fiction , and a judgment of his work based on this assumption ...
... true , but it is to be doubted if the poet himself would have valued an immortality of fame accorded to him only on such terms . The theme of his epic was to him no poetic fiction , and a judgment of his work based on this assumption ...
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... true for all men ) it is through the female sex that this deception is likely to happen . Once the passions have got the upper hand , chaos ensues , all peace of mind is gone , man has fallen from true liberty to mental anarchy . Milton ...
... true for all men ) it is through the female sex that this deception is likely to happen . Once the passions have got the upper hand , chaos ensues , all peace of mind is gone , man has fallen from true liberty to mental anarchy . Milton ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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