The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... epic and chivalrous romance is rejected in favour of the epic of heroic magnanimity ( ' the better fortitude / Of Patience and Heroic Martyrdom ' . ) This promise is scarcely fulfilled in Paradise Lost itself , and it may be conjectured ...
... epic and chivalrous romance is rejected in favour of the epic of heroic magnanimity ( ' the better fortitude / Of Patience and Heroic Martyrdom ' . ) This promise is scarcely fulfilled in Paradise Lost itself , and it may be conjectured ...
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... epic - can hardly be exaggerated . Cer- tainly , ' epic ' in Paradise Regained means something very peculiar , and it is significant that there is no real classical model for the poem - whatever encouragement for his undertaking Milton ...
... epic - can hardly be exaggerated . Cer- tainly , ' epic ' in Paradise Regained means something very peculiar , and it is significant that there is no real classical model for the poem - whatever encouragement for his undertaking Milton ...
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... epic diction , Augustinian theology , and Renaissance ideas about angels , to name but a few . Yet Lewis was not able to resist the temptation to play the public moralist from time to time , using the text of Paradise Lost as a basis ...
... epic diction , Augustinian theology , and Renaissance ideas about angels , to name but a few . Yet Lewis was not able to resist the temptation to play the public moralist from time to time , using the text of Paradise Lost as a basis ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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