The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... Christian Humanists , ' non sine ingenio ' , as Scaliger remarked , ' sed sine arte ' ; the verse ' mollis , languidus , fluxus , incompositus , sine numeris , plebeius'.1 Like the work of Macrobius , it has some interest as a ...
... Christian Humanists , ' non sine ingenio ' , as Scaliger remarked , ' sed sine arte ' ; the verse ' mollis , languidus , fluxus , incompositus , sine numeris , plebeius'.1 Like the work of Macrobius , it has some interest as a ...
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... Christian ideas is the central strength of the poem . Lycidas , as Professor R. L. Brett has recently pointed out , was the last poem in which Milton was able to fuse Chris- tian and pagan imagery in this way and to see nature as , in a ...
... Christian ideas is the central strength of the poem . Lycidas , as Professor R. L. Brett has recently pointed out , was the last poem in which Milton was able to fuse Chris- tian and pagan imagery in this way and to see nature as , in a ...
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... Christian Em- pire ' , Professor Kermode was referring to something I had said in an earlier draft of this essay : I had said that one could excuse Dr. Johnson for not liking Lycidas , for hating the fusion of pagan and Christian ideas ...
... Christian Em- pire ' , Professor Kermode was referring to something I had said in an earlier draft of this essay : I had said that one could excuse Dr. Johnson for not liking Lycidas , for hating the fusion of pagan and Christian ideas ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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