The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... things that men may know or need to know . " The Scriptures , therefore , partly by reason of their own simplicity , and partly through the divine illumination , are plain and perspicuous in all things necessary to salvation , . . . If ...
... things that men may know or need to know . " The Scriptures , therefore , partly by reason of their own simplicity , and partly through the divine illumination , are plain and perspicuous in all things necessary to salvation , . . . If ...
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... things it ex- presses ' . But is it ? I should have thought that was the method of prose . A poem , on the contrary , uses language to carry the mind from the things expressed , i.e. extra - social reality , to the modes of their ...
... things it ex- presses ' . But is it ? I should have thought that was the method of prose . A poem , on the contrary , uses language to carry the mind from the things expressed , i.e. extra - social reality , to the modes of their ...
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... thing of the ideas expressed in it , then we cannot help but find it a great poem . It is certainly useful , or even essential , to know these things , but no amount of sheer knowledge can precipitate into a positive judgement in quite ...
... thing of the ideas expressed in it , then we cannot help but find it a great poem . It is certainly useful , or even essential , to know these things , but no amount of sheer knowledge can precipitate into a positive judgement in quite ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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