The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... phrase which has not a parallel in Spenser is the ' Pansy freak't with jet ' : John Ruskin thought this phrase a blot on the passage because of its undue particularization . He was thinking partly of Dr. Johnson's maxim about how the ...
... phrase which has not a parallel in Spenser is the ' Pansy freak't with jet ' : John Ruskin thought this phrase a blot on the passage because of its undue particularization . He was thinking partly of Dr. Johnson's maxim about how the ...
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... phrase bears no great weight . The real burden of the poem is not here . Posterity has seen fit to sneer at Thomas Ellwood's remark to Milton on reading Paradise Lost that ' Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost , but what hast thou ...
... phrase bears no great weight . The real burden of the poem is not here . Posterity has seen fit to sneer at Thomas Ellwood's remark to Milton on reading Paradise Lost that ' Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost , but what hast thou ...
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... phrase describing his tears would almost certainly be much cooler and less immediate than Sir Herbert would appear to allow . The definitional sense of the phrase would have shrivelled its con- notations of sublimity and we should be ...
... phrase describing his tears would almost certainly be much cooler and less immediate than Sir Herbert would appear to allow . The definitional sense of the phrase would have shrivelled its con- notations of sublimity and we should be ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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