The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... shepherds , natura ' ( p . 51 ) . Vaughan makes much of another ' fact ' , that the shepherds and they alone did understand : ' How happen'd it that in the dead of night / You only saw true light ? ' Beaumont exalts his shepherds almost ...
... shepherds , natura ' ( p . 51 ) . Vaughan makes much of another ' fact ' , that the shepherds and they alone did understand : ' How happen'd it that in the dead of night / You only saw true light ? ' Beaumont exalts his shepherds almost ...
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... shepherds , but never by them ; and from the beginning shepherds were always essentially a way of talking about something else ( about poets , for instance ) , with metaphorical indirection . The shepherds , besides being poets , might ...
... shepherds , but never by them ; and from the beginning shepherds were always essentially a way of talking about something else ( about poets , for instance ) , with metaphorical indirection . The shepherds , besides being poets , might ...
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... shepherd getting his sheep back to fold ( implied , not stated , in Milton ) ; and the shepherd deciding to move on to un- cropped meadows in the morning . There is even the very striking ... shepherds not much . 37 APPROACHES TO ' LYCIDAS '
... shepherd getting his sheep back to fold ( implied , not stated , in Milton ) ; and the shepherd deciding to move on to un- cropped meadows in the morning . There is even the very striking ... shepherds not much . 37 APPROACHES TO ' LYCIDAS '
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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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