The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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Page 72
... narrative ' than ' dramatic ' . I have in mind the invocation to Light at the beginning of Book III : thee I revisit ... narrative effect , to take from a narrative poem precisely that passage ( an invocation ) by which the narrative is ...
... narrative ' than ' dramatic ' . I have in mind the invocation to Light at the beginning of Book III : thee I revisit ... narrative effect , to take from a narrative poem precisely that passage ( an invocation ) by which the narrative is ...
Page 76
... narrative run is halted while the distinction is labori- ously made in a parenthesis which has all the distracting inertness of a footnote . It's impossible , with this second passage , to think that Milton has simply muffed his chances ...
... narrative run is halted while the distinction is labori- ously made in a parenthesis which has all the distracting inertness of a footnote . It's impossible , with this second passage , to think that Milton has simply muffed his chances ...
Page 80
... narrative is quite abruptly halted in order to indulge and invite speculations ( often theological , of course , as well as geo- graphical , cosmological and scientific ) . For this frustration of the narrative interest can be seen in ...
... narrative is quite abruptly halted in order to indulge and invite speculations ( often theological , of course , as well as geo- graphical , cosmological and scientific ) . For this frustration of the narrative interest can be seen in ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
Copyright | |
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