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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... action which it relates is more or less so . This action should have three qualifications in it . First , it should be but one action . Secondly , it should be an * These six essays from The Spectator , issued on consecutive Saturdays ...
... action which it relates is more or less so . This action should have three qualifications in it . First , it should be but one action . Secondly , it should be an * These six essays from The Spectator , issued on consecutive Saturdays ...
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... action . To con- sider the action of the Iliad , Aeneid , and Paradise Lost , in these three several lights . Homer , to preserve the unity of his action , hastens into the midst of things , as Horace has observed : had he gone up to ...
... action . To con- sider the action of the Iliad , Aeneid , and Paradise Lost , in these three several lights . Homer , to preserve the unity of his action , hastens into the midst of things , as Horace has observed : had he gone up to ...
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... action . On the contrary , the poem which we have now un- der our consideration , hath no other episodes than such as natu- rally arise from the subject , and yet is filled with such a multi- tude of astonishing incidents , that it ...
... action . On the contrary , the poem which we have now un- der our consideration , hath no other episodes than such as natu- rally arise from the subject , and yet is filled with such a multi- tude of astonishing incidents , that it ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison Six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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