The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... speak of ' muscularity ' , using ' muscular ' , however , in a special sense , different from ( because more literal than ) the sense in which we can justly speak of other poetry as ' muscular ' . The effect is kinetic . The placing of ...
... speak of ' muscularity ' , using ' muscular ' , however , in a special sense , different from ( because more literal than ) the sense in which we can justly speak of other poetry as ' muscular ' . The effect is kinetic . The placing of ...
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... speaking well without other end ; for the poet as a poet . . . does not develop the matter enough to explain it ... all the others speak well and appropriately but not simply'.3 The poet is concerned to transmit not explanations but ...
... speaking well without other end ; for the poet as a poet . . . does not develop the matter enough to explain it ... all the others speak well and appropriately but not simply'.3 The poet is concerned to transmit not explanations but ...
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... speak in English blank verse . But the objection here is to imaginative incongruity . And we must go further than this . Milton's presentation of Christ , as a whole , must stand convicted of either an error of feeling or an error of ...
... speak in English blank verse . But the objection here is to imaginative incongruity . And we must go further than this . Milton's presentation of Christ , as a whole , must stand convicted of either an error of feeling or an error of ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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