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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Page 14
... expression occupied separate mansions . If the mansion of Milton's thought was considered a dilapidated house frequented only by ghosts , the mansion of his expression was a furbished shrine for critical pilgrims . Mil- ton was praised ...
... expression occupied separate mansions . If the mansion of Milton's thought was considered a dilapidated house frequented only by ghosts , the mansion of his expression was a furbished shrine for critical pilgrims . Mil- ton was praised ...
Page 104
... expression ! What an idea it conveys of the size of that hugest of created beings , as if it shrunk up the ocean to a stream , and took up the sea in its nostrils as a very little thing ? Force of style is one of Milton's greatest ...
... expression ! What an idea it conveys of the size of that hugest of created beings , as if it shrunk up the ocean to a stream , and took up the sea in its nostrils as a very little thing ? Force of style is one of Milton's greatest ...
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... expression " seems the essential quality of poetry . Lycidas is a literary exercise ; and so is almost any other poem earlier than the eighteenth century ; the craftsmanship , the formal quality which is written on it , is meant to have ...
... expression " seems the essential quality of poetry . Lycidas is a literary exercise ; and so is almost any other poem earlier than the eighteenth century ; the craftsmanship , the formal quality which is written on it , is meant to have ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison Six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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