The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... true meaning is so uncertain and remote that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found . Where Dr. Johnson has gone wrong there , Miss Tuve seems to feel , is in seeking for the meaning of allegory , or indeed of ...
... true meaning is so uncertain and remote that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found . Where Dr. Johnson has gone wrong there , Miss Tuve seems to feel , is in seeking for the meaning of allegory , or indeed of ...
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... true in the end , why take all that trouble to say it ? -so , contrariwise , great poems which , looking at the worst , emerge with the grand assertion that all , nevertheless , is somehow well , seem to guarantee by their impact the ...
... true in the end , why take all that trouble to say it ? -so , contrariwise , great poems which , looking at the worst , emerge with the grand assertion that all , nevertheless , is somehow well , seem to guarantee by their impact the ...
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... true that Milton's Michael says a little later in the same speech : Tyrannie must be , Though to the Tyrant thereby no excuse- ( xii . 95-6 ) a realization of the necessity of evil that also runs through Hölderlin's later poems ; but it ...
... true that Milton's Michael says a little later in the same speech : Tyrannie must be , Though to the Tyrant thereby no excuse- ( xii . 95-6 ) a realization of the necessity of evil that also runs through Hölderlin's later poems ; but it ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
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