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Page 54
... darkness , associated with midnight , with Cerberus , the watcher of Hades , with Styx , the river of Hades . There is a ... dark , but they are concrete and defined . Look now at Il Penseroso , and notice that there is nothing concrete ...
... darkness , associated with midnight , with Cerberus , the watcher of Hades , with Styx , the river of Hades . There is a ... dark , but they are concrete and defined . Look now at Il Penseroso , and notice that there is nothing concrete ...
Page 71
... dark or semi - dark when Comus and his rout appear ; part of the " spectacle " was the skillful use of torches in their " light fantastic round , " emphasized by the light - dark imagery in Comus ' octosyllabic couplets , reminiscent of ...
... dark or semi - dark when Comus and his rout appear ; part of the " spectacle " was the skillful use of torches in their " light fantastic round , " emphasized by the light - dark imagery in Comus ' octosyllabic couplets , reminiscent of ...
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... dark and troubled night indeed , which would have proved to another than Christ " the dark night of the soul , " Satan had hoped to produce . Yet through it , as Satan himself says , Christ remained " unappalled in calm and sinless ...
... dark and troubled night indeed , which would have proved to another than Christ " the dark night of the soul , " Satan had hoped to produce . Yet through it , as Satan himself says , Christ remained " unappalled in calm and sinless ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid appear Areopagitica basic begins Belial Biblical blind Book called Cambridge Chorus Christ Christian Church classical climax Comus Creation critics Dalilah dark death deliberately Diodati drama earth echoes Edward Phillips elegy English epic Eve's eyes fallen angels familiar father feel Genesis God's Greek hear Heaven Hell Horton Il Penseroso implied Italian John Milton King L'Allegro Lady Latin Lawes learned light lines living Lord Ludlow Castle Lycidas masque Milton wrote mind modern Moloch mood Muse Nativity Ode Nature pagan Paradise Lost Paradise Regained paraphrase particularly passage Penseroso phrase Pindar poem poet poetry Prologue Psalms Puritan Raphael reader Reason Renaissance rhyme Samson Agonistes Satan says scene seems sestet shepherd sing song sonnet sound speech Spenser Spirit stanza style suggested temptation thee theme thou Tillyard tion tradition verse word write written young youth