The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... Lycidas . As a Cambridge poet ( he had taken his degree about five years ago , and was living in the coun- try , devoting himself to the monumental private studies and the self - disciplining which he considered prerequisites for the ...
... Lycidas . As a Cambridge poet ( he had taken his degree about five years ago , and was living in the coun- try , devoting himself to the monumental private studies and the self - disciplining which he considered prerequisites for the ...
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... Lycidas as ' a poem nearly anonymous ' . Milton in his later poetry is the most individual of all English poets , utterly unlike anyone else . Is he quite so indi- vidual in a comparatively early poem like Lycidas ? Or is he trying to ...
... Lycidas as ' a poem nearly anonymous ' . Milton in his later poetry is the most individual of all English poets , utterly unlike anyone else . Is he quite so indi- vidual in a comparatively early poem like Lycidas ? Or is he trying to ...
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... Lycidas , wonderful and rich and deep and consoling as it is , in the end begs too many questions ; and that a ' human ' poem like Johnson's own elegy on Dr. Levett , bare and down to earth as it is in com- parison , is more concerned ...
... Lycidas , wonderful and rich and deep and consoling as it is , in the end begs too many questions ; and that a ' human ' poem like Johnson's own elegy on Dr. Levett , bare and down to earth as it is in com- parison , is more concerned ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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