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... literary action . It is admittedly an extraordinary demand . We usually suspend our literary disbelief only during the time we are absorbed in an excellent work of fiction . Using a critical shorthand , we may say that we " feel " its ...
... literary action . It is admittedly an extraordinary demand . We usually suspend our literary disbelief only during the time we are absorbed in an excellent work of fiction . Using a critical shorthand , we may say that we " feel " its ...
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... literary effects in Paradise Lost and the other poems . They are sometimes " radical , " as modern studies both of Milton and of others can attest . For example , a recent study of Paradise Lost , one that complements some of the ...
... literary effects in Paradise Lost and the other poems . They are sometimes " radical , " as modern studies both of Milton and of others can attest . For example , a recent study of Paradise Lost , one that complements some of the ...
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... literary disbelief in the Son and Satan and , perhaps more importantly , confront us with our own literary inexperience of this sort of " epic , " our involvement , oddly enough , may be enhanced rather than dis- couraged . In small ...
... literary disbelief in the Son and Satan and , perhaps more importantly , confront us with our own literary inexperience of this sort of " epic , " our involvement , oddly enough , may be enhanced rather than dis- couraged . In small ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
and Il Penseroso Arcades and At a Solemn | 21 |
Full Consort in On the Morning of Christs Nativity | 27 |
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