The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... clear from what Professor Brett says that the kind of contraction of Christian sympathy away from pagan images , the defensive attitude , which I had ascribed to Dr. Johnson , was in fact becoming partly Milton's own attitude , even as ...
... clear from what Professor Brett says that the kind of contraction of Christian sympathy away from pagan images , the defensive attitude , which I had ascribed to Dr. Johnson , was in fact becoming partly Milton's own attitude , even as ...
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... clear that in terms of the movement of this whole passage the phrase bears no great weight . The real burden of the poem is not here . Posterity has seen fit to sneer at Thomas Ellwood's remark to Milton on reading Paradise Lost that ...
... clear that in terms of the movement of this whole passage the phrase bears no great weight . The real burden of the poem is not here . Posterity has seen fit to sneer at Thomas Ellwood's remark to Milton on reading Paradise Lost that ...
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... clear that it is at all precisely applicable to Paradise Regained . Whether the Satan of the later poem is or is not ... clearly part of the intended effect . He is presenting him- self , after all , as a ' sympathetic ' character : Men ...
... clear that it is at all precisely applicable to Paradise Regained . Whether the Satan of the later poem is or is not ... clearly part of the intended effect . He is presenting him- self , after all , as a ' sympathetic ' character : Men ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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