The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... later stanza the wreathing leap of his dragon on to the knight's shield . Such enactment cannot take place , since Milton no more than anyone else can explain how Death takes ' horrid strides ' when it isn't clear whether Death has legs ...
... later stanza the wreathing leap of his dragon on to the knight's shield . Such enactment cannot take place , since Milton no more than anyone else can explain how Death takes ' horrid strides ' when it isn't clear whether Death has legs ...
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... later love poetry in making the body of the beloved a paradise in itself— his ' happier Eden ' is not the same as that promised later to Adam ( xii . 587 ) —and he uses a word , ' imparadis't ' which was to have its place in the ...
... later love poetry in making the body of the beloved a paradise in itself— his ' happier Eden ' is not the same as that promised later to Adam ( xii . 587 ) —and he uses a word , ' imparadis't ' which was to have its place in the ...
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... later in the same speech : Tyrannie must be , Though to the Tyrant thereby no excuse- ( xii . 95-6 ) a realization of the necessity of evil that also runs through Hölderlin's later poems ; but it remains equally true that the sacer ...
... later in the same speech : Tyrannie must be , Though to the Tyrant thereby no excuse- ( xii . 95-6 ) a realization of the necessity of evil that also runs through Hölderlin's later poems ; but it remains equally true that the sacer ...
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PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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