The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode Barnes & Noble, 1968 - 179 pages |
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... turn against him . It has been suggested that Satan's character deteriorates as the poem goes on ; it would be nearer the mark to say that the character stays the same , but Milton turns it round to show it in an increasingly harsh ...
... turn against him . It has been suggested that Satan's character deteriorates as the poem goes on ; it would be nearer the mark to say that the character stays the same , but Milton turns it round to show it in an increasingly harsh ...
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... turn to them . And once having turned , he might —just might — find , as he read on , that Milton's sustaining power , his unflagging homogeneity , was not merely an irritating man- nerism but a strength . Perhaps we should try the ...
... turn to them . And once having turned , he might —just might — find , as he read on , that Milton's sustaining power , his unflagging homogeneity , was not merely an irritating man- nerism but a strength . Perhaps we should try the ...
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... turn at the end of Lycidas . Weep no more , woeful Shepherds , weep no more , is very closely modelled on a similar turn at the end of Spenser's November eclogue in The Shepheardes Calender , and we can even find the good line of ...
... turn at the end of Lycidas . Weep no more , woeful Shepherds , weep no more , is very closely modelled on a similar turn at the end of Spenser's November eclogue in The Shepheardes Calender , and we can even find the good line of ...
Contents
PESSIMISTIC NOTES | 1 |
THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
Copyright | |
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