The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... meaning is so uncertain and remote that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found . Where Dr. Johnson has gone wrong there , Miss Tuve seems to feel , is in seeking for the meaning of allegory , or indeed of ...
... meaning is so uncertain and remote that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found . Where Dr. Johnson has gone wrong there , Miss Tuve seems to feel , is in seeking for the meaning of allegory , or indeed of ...
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... meaning than the simple word ' Eden ' dropped so lightly yet significantly in line 4. How much more meaning Milton gets into the phrase ' so late thir happie seat ' at the end of the poem , when the whole weight of the completed epic ...
... meaning than the simple word ' Eden ' dropped so lightly yet significantly in line 4. How much more meaning Milton gets into the phrase ' so late thir happie seat ' at the end of the poem , when the whole weight of the completed epic ...
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... meaning , just as it is parallel in metrical placement and gram- matical function . We expect ' Spring ' . What we get is ' Day ' . And this is surprising . Yet the surprise is no cheap or empty one , for the parallel in meaning is in ...
... meaning , just as it is parallel in metrical placement and gram- matical function . We expect ' Spring ' . What we get is ' Day ' . And this is surprising . Yet the surprise is no cheap or empty one , for the parallel in meaning is in ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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