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... Milton . ( Both Donne and Milton at their best give us poetry in which form and content cannot be separated . ) The quality to which I refer is not even to be defined as a high degree of formality , for whereas Milton is rarely casual ...
... Milton . ( Both Donne and Milton at their best give us poetry in which form and content cannot be separated . ) The quality to which I refer is not even to be defined as a high degree of formality , for whereas Milton is rarely casual ...
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... Milton makes it grand and awesome , not merely like the moon , but like a brighter , magnified moon , he can afford to accept all the other conse- quences of the magnification . They ... Milton's style and Milton and the New Criticism 347.
... Milton makes it grand and awesome , not merely like the moon , but like a brighter , magnified moon , he can afford to accept all the other conse- quences of the magnification . They ... Milton's style and Milton and the New Criticism 347.
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... Milton's poetry in the last seventy - five years has sprung from a dislike of Milton the man- as I once heard Professor Douglas Bush ruefully remark . And though Milton's ideas are important Paradise Lost is not just a superb organ ...
... Milton's poetry in the last seventy - five years has sprung from a dislike of Milton the man- as I once heard Professor Douglas Bush ruefully remark . And though Milton's ideas are important Paradise Lost is not just a superb organ ...
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The Uses of Literature 1963 I | 1 |
The Modern Writer and his Community 1965 | 17 |
Thinker and Artist 1965 | 37 |
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