Milton Criticism: Selections from Four CenturiesJames Thorpe Octagon Books, 1966 - 376 pages |
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... writer is that he is an ancient , but born two thousand years after his time . His language indeed is modern , but ... writing ; and Milton has it , I think , to a degree beyond what we have ever found in any modern painter or sculptor ...
... writer is that he is an ancient , but born two thousand years after his time . His language indeed is modern , but ... writing ; and Milton has it , I think , to a degree beyond what we have ever found in any modern painter or sculptor ...
Page 85
... writer of Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions of fancy , and ex- alted precepts of wisdom . The basis of ... writing ; he knew human nature only in the gross , and had never studied the shades of character , nor the ...
... writer of Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions of fancy , and ex- alted precepts of wisdom . The basis of ... writing ; he knew human nature only in the gross , and had never studied the shades of character , nor the ...
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... writers of verse , the nearest analogy seems to me to be Mallarmé , a much smaller poet , though still a great one ... writing that it illustrates are such as are valid only for Milton himself to observe . There are two kinds of poet ...
... writers of verse , the nearest analogy seems to me to be Mallarmé , a much smaller poet , though still a great one ... writing that it illustrates are such as are valid only for Milton himself to observe . There are two kinds of poet ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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