The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... reader , the twentieth century is very much Milton's period ' out ' . So far out , indeed , that one doubts whether anything short of a titanic revolution in taste will bring him back in . The reason for this neglect is an honourable ...
... reader , the twentieth century is very much Milton's period ' out ' . So far out , indeed , that one doubts whether anything short of a titanic revolution in taste will bring him back in . The reason for this neglect is an honourable ...
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... readers , and shown that Milton was precise where he has been accused of imprecision ; they have said a good deal ... reader , who thinks of novels when he thinks of long narratives , and who thinks of novels in post - Jamesian terms ...
... readers , and shown that Milton was precise where he has been accused of imprecision ; they have said a good deal ... reader , who thinks of novels when he thinks of long narratives , and who thinks of novels in post - Jamesian terms ...
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... reader should , after all , have some access to the Christian sensibility that has been an informing element in over a thousand years of Western literature . Waldock , however , approaches the poem with no more than the typical ...
... reader should , after all , have some access to the Christian sensibility that has been an informing element in over a thousand years of Western literature . Waldock , however , approaches the poem with no more than the typical ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
Copyright | |
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