The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... seems to dissolve into inarticulate keening , ' aaw - aoo - oh ' . But the dissolution is momentary ; we are recalled at once to what the words say : ' all our woe ' , the sheer abundance of it , all human woe is attributable to this ...
... seems to dissolve into inarticulate keening , ' aaw - aoo - oh ' . But the dissolution is momentary ; we are recalled at once to what the words say : ' all our woe ' , the sheer abundance of it , all human woe is attributable to this ...
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... seems to me much more central to the mood of the poem than the famous felix culpa , because it is rooted in nature , and related to our habit of rejoicing that life continues , in spite of death , from genera- tion to generation . Yet ...
... seems to me much more central to the mood of the poem than the famous felix culpa , because it is rooted in nature , and related to our habit of rejoicing that life continues , in spite of death , from genera- tion to generation . Yet ...
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... seems clear that the success of the poem depends upon the reader's willingness to imagine himself in sympathy with certain religious and ethical doctrines . To a reader without this sympathy , or without the capacity for it , Paradise ...
... seems clear that the success of the poem depends upon the reader's willingness to imagine himself in sympathy with certain religious and ethical doctrines . To a reader without this sympathy , or without the capacity for it , Paradise ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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