The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... tion of Milton's poetic style . Its essence seems to me to reside in two things : music and emphasis . The music , we may take for granted . Not even Shakespeare had more . The emphasis is part of his habit of mind ; he will lead the ...
... tion of Milton's poetic style . Its essence seems to me to reside in two things : music and emphasis . The music , we may take for granted . Not even Shakespeare had more . The emphasis is part of his habit of mind ; he will lead the ...
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... tion- " the tears that angels , like men , can weep ( for they can ) " rather than " celestial tears " . Thus if in fact we were re - reading the poem we might on the one hand have the advantage of seeing Satan's weeping as a striking ...
... tion- " the tears that angels , like men , can weep ( for they can ) " rather than " celestial tears " . Thus if in fact we were re - reading the poem we might on the one hand have the advantage of seeing Satan's weeping as a striking ...
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... tion to generation . Yet Adam is still under the shadow of death , and his restatement of the theme Venus - Eve - Mary is very properly deprived of the sensuous context provided for Raphael's saluta- tion ; and since the second passage ...
... tion to generation . Yet Adam is still under the shadow of death , and his restatement of the theme Venus - Eve - Mary is very properly deprived of the sensuous context provided for Raphael's saluta- tion ; and since the second passage ...
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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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