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Page 217
... poem or good verse , in longer works especially , but the invention of a barbarous age , to set off wretched matter and lame metre ' . This is unnecessarily dismis- sive , especially when one thinks of his favourite Spenser . He allows ...
... poem or good verse , in longer works especially , but the invention of a barbarous age , to set off wretched matter and lame metre ' . This is unnecessarily dismis- sive , especially when one thinks of his favourite Spenser . He allows ...
Page 219
... poem reflects , as always with a real writer , his own experience : of Civil War and Commonwealth , the Restoration ... poem is so much alive and vib- rant with feeling , unlike other deliberate and self - consciously heroic poems his ...
... poem reflects , as always with a real writer , his own experience : of Civil War and Commonwealth , the Restoration ... poem is so much alive and vib- rant with feeling , unlike other deliberate and self - consciously heroic poems his ...
Page 244
... poem – though anticipatory lines could well have been incorporated in the manuscript , since it was not published for another two years . If Milton were merely being polite , as he was in personal conversation - as opposed to his ...
... poem – though anticipatory lines could well have been incorporated in the manuscript , since it was not published for another two years . If Milton were merely being polite , as he was in personal conversation - as opposed to his ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Paradise Lost | 215 |
Milton Christ and Samson | 243 |
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