The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... Satan . Points of View I shall return to this , and to the other more or less distorting glasses that Milton inserts between us and the voluptuousness of Eden ; but first it seems right to say a word in general on a neglected subject ...
... Satan . Points of View I shall return to this , and to the other more or less distorting glasses that Milton inserts between us and the voluptuousness of Eden ; but first it seems right to say a word in general on a neglected subject ...
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... Satan of the later poem is or is not ' the same ' character as the Satan of Paradise Lost , no one surely would judge that here at any rate he ' gets out of hand ' . On the contrary , in the presentation of Satan as in everything else ...
... Satan of the later poem is or is not ' the same ' character as the Satan of Paradise Lost , no one surely would judge that here at any rate he ' gets out of hand ' . On the contrary , in the presentation of Satan as in everything else ...
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... Satan raises the story above the level of a mere debate . Satan is made ' serviceable ' to the poet : it is in Satan's language , rather than in anything Milton directly tells us about Christ , that we feel the attractiveness of heroic ...
... Satan raises the story above the level of a mere debate . Satan is made ' serviceable ' to the poet : it is in Satan's language , rather than in anything Milton directly tells us about Christ , that we feel the attractiveness of heroic ...
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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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