The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... question of original ' ideas ' : Vaughan is steeped in the tradition . His verses constantly paraphrase the prophets and gospels ; the cloud , the veil , the trees and birds are traditional carol motifs ; the typology of sun - son ...
... question of original ' ideas ' : Vaughan is steeped in the tradition . His verses constantly paraphrase the prophets and gospels ; the cloud , the veil , the trees and birds are traditional carol motifs ; the typology of sun - son ...
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... question ' And then ? ' - to provoke this question and to answer it in unexpected ways . If any arrangement of language is a sequence of verbal events , here syntax is employed so as to make the most of each word's event- fulness , so ...
... question ' And then ? ' - to provoke this question and to answer it in unexpected ways . If any arrangement of language is a sequence of verbal events , here syntax is employed so as to make the most of each word's event- fulness , so ...
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... question ' thrown where ? ' In fact , this question is so unexciting that we don't even ask it ; so that ' Into th ' Euboic Sea ' hangs superfluous -the sentence could just as well have ended where the line ends , after ' threw ' . As ...
... question ' thrown where ? ' In fact , this question is so unexciting that we don't even ask it ; so that ' Into th ' Euboic Sea ' hangs superfluous -the sentence could just as well have ended where the line ends , after ' threw ' . As ...
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PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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