The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... mind were concepts like hungering and thirsting after righteousness ; like drinking the communion cup ( Anglicans in Milton's time were offered the cup as well as the bread , where Continental Papists had to be content with the wafer ) ...
... mind were concepts like hungering and thirsting after righteousness ; like drinking the communion cup ( Anglicans in Milton's time were offered the cup as well as the bread , where Continental Papists had to be content with the wafer ) ...
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... mind when he described poetry as the art simpliciter bene dicendi , of speaking well without other end ; for the poet as a poet . . . does not develop the matter enough to explain it ... all the others speak well and appropriately but ...
... mind when he described poetry as the art simpliciter bene dicendi , of speaking well without other end ; for the poet as a poet . . . does not develop the matter enough to explain it ... all the others speak well and appropriately but ...
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... mind to the things it ex- presses ' . But is it ? I should have thought that was the method of prose . A poem , on the contrary , uses language to carry the mind from the things expressed , i.e. extra - social reality , to the modes of ...
... mind to the things it ex- presses ' . But is it ? I should have thought that was the method of prose . A poem , on the contrary , uses language to carry the mind from the things expressed , i.e. extra - social reality , to the modes of ...
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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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