The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... Empedocles and the representatives of the religious and political status quo . The citizens of Agrigentum even offer to make Empedocles their king , but with the noble scorn of the sacer rates for anything less than Heaven on earth ...
... Empedocles and the representatives of the religious and political status quo . The citizens of Agrigentum even offer to make Empedocles their king , but with the noble scorn of the sacer rates for anything less than Heaven on earth ...
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... Empedocles ' death is also symbolic of his return to nature , a fusion with nature at its darkest , most elemental ... Empedocles ' disciple Pausanias pleads with him in a similar strain , though his arguments are less cogent , because ...
... Empedocles ' death is also symbolic of his return to nature , a fusion with nature at its darkest , most elemental ... Empedocles ' disciple Pausanias pleads with him in a similar strain , though his arguments are less cogent , because ...
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... Empedocles or Empedocles on Etna was not an absolute defeat ; the tragic spirit was carried over into his last odes and elegies , the prophetic spirit into his ' hymns ' . What it did mean was that tragedy as such is too essentially ...
... Empedocles or Empedocles on Etna was not an absolute defeat ; the tragic spirit was carried over into his last odes and elegies , the prophetic spirit into his ' hymns ' . What it did mean was that tragedy as such is too essentially ...
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PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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