The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... poem of a dauntingly unfamiliar kind . That was my own experi- ence as a schoolboy , and I thought that Milton might well have invented the kind . In fact it is a poem set so firmly in a tradition that John Crowe Ransom has described it ...
... poem of a dauntingly unfamiliar kind . That was my own experi- ence as a schoolboy , and I thought that Milton might well have invented the kind . In fact it is a poem set so firmly in a tradition that John Crowe Ransom has described it ...
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... poem , and the essay which , I think conclusively , answers Mr. Graves's accusation that Milton was an unloving man and that Lycidas is a poem ' strangled by art ' . It is to be noted , however , that she does not seek to find in the poem ...
... poem , and the essay which , I think conclusively , answers Mr. Graves's accusation that Milton was an unloving man and that Lycidas is a poem ' strangled by art ' . It is to be noted , however , that she does not seek to find in the poem ...
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... poem that is ' encyclopaedic ' is how its encyclopaedic speculations are to be bound together into one whole . Mr. Broadbent anticipates this when he says that ' Milton's material is . . . integrated at every point with his poem's plot ...
... poem that is ' encyclopaedic ' is how its encyclopaedic speculations are to be bound together into one whole . Mr. Broadbent anticipates this when he says that ' Milton's material is . . . integrated at every point with his poem's plot ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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