The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... pure virgin shine , That sacred veil drawn o'er Thy glorious noon , That men might look and live , as glow - worms shine , And face the moon : Wise Nicodemus saw such light As made him know his God by night . Most blest believer he ...
... pure virgin shine , That sacred veil drawn o'er Thy glorious noon , That men might look and live , as glow - worms shine , And face the moon : Wise Nicodemus saw such light As made him know his God by night . Most blest believer he ...
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... pure his oozy Locks he laves , And hears the unexpressive nuptial Song . ( " Unexpressive ' there - it is the penalty of writing in an unsettled language — means the opposite of what we mean by ' unexpres- sive ' : it means too ...
... pure his oozy Locks he laves , And hears the unexpressive nuptial Song . ( " Unexpressive ' there - it is the penalty of writing in an unsettled language — means the opposite of what we mean by ' unexpres- sive ' : it means too ...
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... pure reason . But this involves Milton in an artistic contradiction . In allowing Christ to speak poetry at all , he is obliged to supply some tone , some presence , to the voice of pure reason . The result is the acerbity in Christ's ...
... pure reason . But this involves Milton in an artistic contradiction . In allowing Christ to speak poetry at all , he is obliged to supply some tone , some presence , to the voice of pure reason . The result is the acerbity in Christ's ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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