The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... feeling for a lesser good must be opposed by the quality of feeling for a higher good . To try to write poetry on another supposition is to go against the grain . It is , indeed , hard to feel that an element of penitential exercise ...
... feeling for a lesser good must be opposed by the quality of feeling for a higher good . To try to write poetry on another supposition is to go against the grain . It is , indeed , hard to feel that an element of penitential exercise ...
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... feel that the actual Satan of the poem is ' evil ' ? However discredited and contemned , he is ' serviceable to Heaven's King ' by Christ's own admission . He is even a Son of God ; the title , as he employs it polemically , has a ...
... feel that the actual Satan of the poem is ' evil ' ? However discredited and contemned , he is ' serviceable to Heaven's King ' by Christ's own admission . He is even a Son of God ; the title , as he employs it polemically , has a ...
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... feel the force of this , I think ; it is merely sufficient to have some sense of what it feels like to have a Christian conscience . But this seems to be beyond Waldock : for him the whole sensibility informing Paradise Lost belongs to ...
... feel the force of this , I think ; it is merely sufficient to have some sense of what it feels like to have a Christian conscience . But this seems to be beyond Waldock : for him the whole sensibility informing Paradise Lost belongs to ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
Copyright | |
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