The Minor Poems in EnglishMacmillan, 1972 - 362 pages |
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... verse by writing sentences which refuse to co - operate with the line - lengths . His full - stops tend just to miss the line - endings . Thus ' Forget not ' in the Piedmont Sonnet is not only a Latinism . It is also a studied insult to ...
... verse by writing sentences which refuse to co - operate with the line - lengths . His full - stops tend just to miss the line - endings . Thus ' Forget not ' in the Piedmont Sonnet is not only a Latinism . It is also a studied insult to ...
Page 297
John Milton. Sonnets and Other Verse 1642-1658 Sonnets I and VII ( and five Italian sonnets ) belong to Milton's youth ... verse . In keeping with his heroic themes , Milton's style is elevated in various ways , but these ways , such as ...
John Milton. Sonnets and Other Verse 1642-1658 Sonnets I and VII ( and five Italian sonnets ) belong to Milton's youth ... verse . In keeping with his heroic themes , Milton's style is elevated in various ways , but these ways , such as ...
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... verse of his Samson Agonistes.1 In the ode On the Morn- ing of Christ's Nativity , however , Milton adapts not so much Pindar's elaborate structures as his gravity , seriousness , ' loftiness ' . Yet the result was ' a new kind of lyric ...
... verse of his Samson Agonistes.1 In the ode On the Morn- ing of Christ's Nativity , however , Milton adapts not so much Pindar's elaborate structures as his gravity , seriousness , ' loftiness ' . Yet the result was ' a new kind of lyric ...
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