Revaluation: Tradition & Development in English Poetry |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 51
Page 42
... Milton at much the same time . His Problem of Style contains an acute page or two comparing Milton with Shakespeare , and there was a review of Bridges ' Milton's Prosody in The Athenæum that one would like to see reprinted along with a ...
... Milton at much the same time . His Problem of Style contains an acute page or two comparing Milton with Shakespeare , and there was a review of Bridges ' Milton's Prosody in The Athenæum that one would like to see reprinted along with a ...
Page 53
... Milton achieved by transfusing Greek or Latin construc- tions into his English verse . ' But Milton's transfusing is regular and unremitting , and involves , not pleasant occasional surprises , but a consistent rejection of English ...
... Milton achieved by transfusing Greek or Latin construc- tions into his English verse . ' But Milton's transfusing is regular and unremitting , and involves , not pleasant occasional surprises , but a consistent rejection of English ...
Page 59
... Milton can compass ) , Paradise Lost , though there are intervals of relief , becomes dull and empty all , ' as Raleigh says , ' is power , vagueness and grandeur ... Milton 6 one must be Milton ; one must have all 59 MILTON'S VERSE.
... Milton can compass ) , Paradise Lost , though there are intervals of relief , becomes dull and empty all , ' as Raleigh says , ' is power , vagueness and grandeur ... Milton 6 one must be Milton ; one must have all 59 MILTON'S VERSE.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
achievement admirable aesthetic Augustan beauty Ben Jonson bright Carew characteristic civilization Coleridge complete contemplation contrast course critical decorum Donne Dryden Dunciad effect eighteenth century Elegy Eliot emotional English poetry essay essential fact feeling flowers genius Gray's heart Heaven human Hyperion idiom imagery imagination insistence inspiration intelligence Jonson Keats Keats's kind less light literary living Lycidas lyrical Lytton Strachey Mac Flecknoe Marvell's Matthew Arnold merely Metaphysical Milton mind mode Mont Blanc moral movement nature ness Nightingale Note o'er obvious offered Oxford Book Paradise Lost passage phrase plain poem poet poetic polite Pope Pope's present prose realized relation representative rich Romantic Samson Agonistes satiric seems sense sensibility sensuous Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's significant solemn song soul spirit stanza strength stress subtle suggest sweet taste Tennyson thee things thou thought Tintern Abbey tion tone tradition turn uncon Victorian virtues words Wordsworth