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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... poem , though as in other heroic poems , superior beings are introduced . The business of it is to conduct man through variety of conditions of happiness and distress , all terminating in the utmost good : from a state of precarious ...
... poem , though as in other heroic poems , superior beings are introduced . The business of it is to conduct man through variety of conditions of happiness and distress , all terminating in the utmost good : from a state of precarious ...
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Selections from Four Centuries James Thorpe ... poets , another poem so wilful and illegal in form as this one . Milton . . . never repeated his bold experiment ; and he felt at the time that it was not an altogether successful experi ...
Selections from Four Centuries James Thorpe ... poets , another poem so wilful and illegal in form as this one . Milton . . . never repeated his bold experiment ; and he felt at the time that it was not an altogether successful experi ...
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... Poem ; that is to say , a Poem that should have his own Thoughts , his own Images , and his own Spirit . In order to this he was resolved to write a Poem , that , by vertue of its extraordinary Subject , cannot so properly be said to be ...
... Poem ; that is to say , a Poem that should have his own Thoughts , his own Images , and his own Spirit . In order to this he was resolved to write a Poem , that , by vertue of its extraordinary Subject , cannot so properly be said to be ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison Six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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