Milton's 'Paradise Lost'Barnes & Noble, 1962 - 210 pages |
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... language ' . This is well illustrated by Johnson's famous criticism of Macbeth's speech before the murder of Duncan , with its ' heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark ' . ( It is true that Johnson also criticized Milton's language ...
... language ' . This is well illustrated by Johnson's famous criticism of Macbeth's speech before the murder of Duncan , with its ' heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark ' . ( It is true that Johnson also criticized Milton's language ...
Page 64
... language . . . but such is the power of his poetry , that his call is obeyed with- out resistance , the reader feels himself in captivity to a higher and nobler mind , and criticism sinks in admiration . ' " This criticism ' , comments ...
... language . . . but such is the power of his poetry , that his call is obeyed with- out resistance , the reader feels himself in captivity to a higher and nobler mind , and criticism sinks in admiration . ' " This criticism ' , comments ...
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... language is not based on common English , on the current educated speech of his time : how in that case could it be an effective , let alone a great English poetic style ? If it is not English , plain English , that he writes , he has ...
... language is not based on common English , on the current educated speech of his time : how in that case could it be an effective , let alone a great English poetic style ? If it is not English , plain English , that he writes , he has ...
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action Adam and Eve Adam's argument bioliterary criticism birds Book C. S. Lewis Chaos characters common creation Death describing devils diction divine doctrine Earth effect Eliot English epic epic similes episode Ev'ning Eve's evil expressed F. T. Prince fact Fall fallen angels Father feel fruit glory God's Hakluyt hero heroic Homer human ideas images imagination John Milton Johnson language Latin light lines live love poetry man's means Milton mind modern narrative nature neoclassical obedience Paradise Lost Paradise Regain'd passage passion peace poem poet poet's poetic presented Purchas Raphael reader reason return to Hell revolt Samson Agonistes Satan says seemd seen sense Serpent seventeenth century shade sight simile Skinner speech story style T. S. Eliot tells thee theology things thir thou thought Tidore tion true truth verse voyage Waldock war in Heaven wind woman words