The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... sound , there is nothing finer in poetry . . . The tribute is grudging in one sense , but generous in another , and it be in fact that when most of us first come across the may ' stormy Hebrides ' passage the ' grandeur of sound ' is ...
... sound , there is nothing finer in poetry . . . The tribute is grudging in one sense , but generous in another , and it be in fact that when most of us first come across the may ' stormy Hebrides ' passage the ' grandeur of sound ' is ...
Page 58
... sounds in themselves , of course , can suggest anything or nothing ; but in this context , and in association with words of this particular meaning , the vowels and diphthongs of ' all our woe ' sound like a veritable wail of grief ...
... sounds in themselves , of course , can suggest anything or nothing ; but in this context , and in association with words of this particular meaning , the vowels and diphthongs of ' all our woe ' sound like a veritable wail of grief ...
Page 68
... sound steadily thickens , until in line 34 the drums roll with the introduction to ' Th ' infernal Serpent ' . It is not difficult to discuss Milton's sound patterns and his handling of verbal cadence . The temptation succumbed to by so ...
... sound steadily thickens , until in line 34 the drums roll with the introduction to ' Th ' infernal Serpent ' . It is not difficult to discuss Milton's sound patterns and his handling of verbal cadence . The temptation succumbed to by so ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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