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 119
... sense vari- ously drawn out from one verse into another . " By " apt num- bers " he probably meant the skilful handling of stress - varia- tion in relation to the sense . But the last of the three is the essential of Miltonic blank ...
... sense vari- ously drawn out from one verse into another . " By " apt num- bers " he probably meant the skilful handling of stress - varia- tion in relation to the sense . But the last of the three is the essential of Miltonic blank ...
Page 258
... sense of injured merit That with the mightiest raised me to contend . . . . But it is also ironical . Certainly Satan has this sense ; only this sense has landed him in hell — and in inaccuracy . Hell is always inaccurate . He goes on ...
... sense of injured merit That with the mightiest raised me to contend . . . . But it is also ironical . Certainly Satan has this sense ; only this sense has landed him in hell — and in inaccuracy . Hell is always inaccurate . He goes on ...
Page 331
... sense of Wordsworth's Prefaces . By the beginning of the present century another revolution in idiom - and such revolutions bring with them an alteration of metric , a new appeal to the ear - was due . It inevitably happens that the ...
... sense of Wordsworth's Prefaces . By the beginning of the present century another revolution in idiom - and such revolutions bring with them an alteration of metric , a new appeal to the ear - was due . It inevitably happens that the ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison Six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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