The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... alliteration ' First . . . Fruit . . . Forbidden . ' The alliteration forces these words together : we think of ' first fruit ' , then — ' forbidden ' . The twenty - third chapter of Leviticus gives the divine command to the children of ...
... alliteration ' First . . . Fruit . . . Forbidden . ' The alliteration forces these words together : we think of ' first fruit ' , then — ' forbidden ' . The twenty - third chapter of Leviticus gives the divine command to the children of ...
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... alliteration . ' First Fruit Forbidden ' - not brought before the Lord to be accepted , but forbidden . The perversity of the situation is apparent . Man's first disobedience was for Milton the primal perversity , and he manages to ...
... alliteration . ' First Fruit Forbidden ' - not brought before the Lord to be accepted , but forbidden . The perversity of the situation is apparent . Man's first disobedience was for Milton the primal perversity , and he manages to ...
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... alliteration of ' shake ' and ' shattered ' contributes to this effect of a continuous process ) . It is true in suggestion to say that this kind of verse is more ' dramatic ' than the passage from Paradise Regained . But this is not ...
... alliteration of ' shake ' and ' shattered ' contributes to this effect of a continuous process ) . It is true in suggestion to say that this kind of verse is more ' dramatic ' than the passage from Paradise Regained . But this is not ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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