The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... less egotistical than Milton's other poems . My point is that we must not accept it simply as part of ' the ... less anxiously arrogant art , in which nature has more play , and spirit is less Platonic : an art , and an ethic ...
... less egotistical than Milton's other poems . My point is that we must not accept it simply as part of ' the ... less anxiously arrogant art , in which nature has more play , and spirit is less Platonic : an art , and an ethic ...
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... less and more , including a good deal that Milton doubtless believed to be true , but also a good deal that he did not . He sophisticates - or , with Schiller's sense in mind , ' sentimentalizes ' might be better - his naïve subject ...
... less and more , including a good deal that Milton doubtless believed to be true , but also a good deal that he did not . He sophisticates - or , with Schiller's sense in mind , ' sentimentalizes ' might be better - his naïve subject ...
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... less so . Imaginative temptations should be met imaginatively . The quality of 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 ...
... less so . Imaginative temptations should be met imaginatively . The quality of 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 ...
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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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