Milton Criticism: Selections from Four CenturiesJames Thorpe Rinehart, 1950 - 376 pages This book is an invitation to the reading of Milton. The major portion of the volumes consists of sixteen extended essays and studies from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries." -- Preface. |
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... book , growing out of a re - examina- tion of all that criticism , is an attempt at a balanced selection of what seems to me to have permanent significance . The book has a secondary aim , which is indicated in Emer- son's dictum that ...
... book , growing out of a re - examina- tion of all that criticism , is an attempt at a balanced selection of what seems to me to have permanent significance . The book has a secondary aim , which is indicated in Emer- son's dictum that ...
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... Book of Paradise Lost , and the only less splendid enumeration , in the Eleventh Book , of the Kingdoms of the Earth , shown to Adam in vision , are a stand- ing testimony to his powers . Compared with these , the list of human diseases ...
... Book of Paradise Lost , and the only less splendid enumeration , in the Eleventh Book , of the Kingdoms of the Earth , shown to Adam in vision , are a stand- ing testimony to his powers . Compared with these , the list of human diseases ...
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... Book Four ; it is implicit in the de- scription of Paradise , which has in it the hopeless ache for the unattainable . But it comes out strongest of all in the last four books . There is a dreadful sense of the wrongness of the order of ...
... Book Four ; it is implicit in the de- scription of Paradise , which has in it the hopeless ache for the unattainable . But it comes out strongest of all in the last four books . There is a dreadful sense of the wrongness of the order of ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison Six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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