The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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Page 79
... interest of allegory . When Spenser describes Error's brood as ' each one / Of sundrie shapes , yet all ill - favored ' , he is enriching at one and the same time the literal image and the allegorical . The allegorical significance is ...
... interest of allegory . When Spenser describes Error's brood as ' each one / Of sundrie shapes , yet all ill - favored ' , he is enriching at one and the same time the literal image and the allegorical . The allegorical significance is ...
Page 80
... interest was invited by Milton from the first ; especially as we read on after the first two books , we encounter more and more cases in which the narrative is quite abruptly halted in order to indulge and invite speculations ( often ...
... interest was invited by Milton from the first ; especially as we read on after the first two books , we encounter more and more cases in which the narrative is quite abruptly halted in order to indulge and invite speculations ( often ...
Page 83
... interest in it . And this means that the developing plot cannot , as we read the poem , hold together the massive and various learning it is made to carry ; the unity imposed by the plot is only schematic , it is not felt by the reader ...
... interest in it . And this means that the developing plot cannot , as we read the poem , hold together the massive and various learning it is made to carry ; the unity imposed by the plot is only schematic , it is not felt by the reader ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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