The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... answer to the charge is not that the ideas are , on the contrary , alive ; but that the poem is not a monument to any ideas . And only an answer of that kind has much chance of being heard . The poem has had many ingenious and scholarly ...
... answer to the charge is not that the ideas are , on the contrary , alive ; but that the poem is not a monument to any ideas . And only an answer of that kind has much chance of being heard . The poem has had many ingenious and scholarly ...
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... answer to their criticisms that they have demanded . It does not , in short , meet them on their own ground . I will ... answering ' a critical judgement . The critical judgement , we are often told , is not a question of externally ...
... answer to their criticisms that they have demanded . It does not , in short , meet them on their own ground . I will ... answering ' a critical judgement . The critical judgement , we are often told , is not a question of externally ...
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... answer ' to their charges , they are undoubtedly expecting an answer couched in the language in which these charges were made : otherwise they would not be able to recognize it as an answer at all . Leavis or Peter might be satisfied by ...
... answer ' to their charges , they are undoubtedly expecting an answer couched in the language in which these charges were made : otherwise they would not be able to recognize it as an answer at all . Leavis or Peter might be satisfied by ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
Copyright | |
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