The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... poet's sense of one of his functions in an ordered community . Milton , in Lycidas , was harking back to Spenser , whereas the most fashionable poet who contributed to King's memorial volume , Cleveland , was a neo- Donneian ; rather in ...
... poet's sense of one of his functions in an ordered community . Milton , in Lycidas , was harking back to Spenser , whereas the most fashionable poet who contributed to King's memorial volume , Cleveland , was a neo- Donneian ; rather in ...
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... poet brooding over his material in the process of poetic creation . The poet has been linked with shepherd , with prophet , with priest , and with the perfect man of Psalm 15 : now he is linked by analogy to God Himself . Just as God ...
... poet brooding over his material in the process of poetic creation . The poet has been linked with shepherd , with prophet , with priest , and with the perfect man of Psalm 15 : now he is linked by analogy to God Himself . Just as God ...
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... poet's interests here , the stress tending to fall on demonstrative distinctions ( “ this attracts the Soul ... poet - and none of the sensible detractors of Milton denies that he is , after all , a great poet . Yet here we have a great ...
... poet's interests here , the stress tending to fall on demonstrative distinctions ( “ this attracts the Soul ... poet - and none of the sensible detractors of Milton denies that he is , after all , a great poet . Yet here we have a great ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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