The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... angels weep ' . Sir Herbert had applauded ( in his Milton and Wordsworth , p . 107 ) : ' that tremendous stroke which one might hardly have expected from Milton , Satan shaken with remorse as he surveys the fallen followers of his pride ...
... angels weep ' . Sir Herbert had applauded ( in his Milton and Wordsworth , p . 107 ) : ' that tremendous stroke which one might hardly have expected from Milton , Satan shaken with remorse as he surveys the fallen followers of his pride ...
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... angels and we might well feel that these words contained only a simple prosaic qualifica- tion- " the tears that angels , like men , can weep ( for they can ) " rather than " celestial tears " . Thus if in fact we were re - reading the ...
... angels and we might well feel that these words contained only a simple prosaic qualifica- tion- " the tears that angels , like men , can weep ( for they can ) " rather than " celestial tears " . Thus if in fact we were re - reading the ...
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... Angels , into Rhyme ; he is so far from elevating of Poesie that he only abases Divinity'.1 From all Milton says about the way poetry works it is clear that he asks of it not that it should immediately instruct , but that it should ...
... Angels , into Rhyme ; he is so far from elevating of Poesie that he only abases Divinity'.1 From all Milton says about the way poetry works it is clear that he asks of it not that it should immediately instruct , but that it should ...
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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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