Voice and Crisis: Invocation in Milton's Poetry |
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... reader can taste . ” In the eighteenth century it was difficult to make a traditional epic invocation — indeed it proved impossible to write a serious epic at all . The most successful forms of invocation were devised by Pope for his ...
... reader can taste . ” In the eighteenth century it was difficult to make a traditional epic invocation — indeed it proved impossible to write a serious epic at all . The most successful forms of invocation were devised by Pope for his ...
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... reader . ›› 21 On the other side of this resonant elegy lay a profound silence . From " Lycidas " ( 1638 ) to Paradise Lost ( 1667 ) was a distance of almost thirty years during which no major poetic achievement ap- peared . Even the ...
... reader . ›› 21 On the other side of this resonant elegy lay a profound silence . From " Lycidas " ( 1638 ) to Paradise Lost ( 1667 ) was a distance of almost thirty years during which no major poetic achievement ap- peared . Even the ...
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... reader . Of no lines in Paradise Lost is this more true than of these opening lines , compelling the reader to attention with the expectation , as C. S. Lewis phrased it , " That some great thing is about to begin . A recent critic has ...
... reader . Of no lines in Paradise Lost is this more true than of these opening lines , compelling the reader to attention with the expectation , as C. S. Lewis phrased it , " That some great thing is about to begin . A recent critic has ...
Contents
The Pattern of Invocation in Miltons Poetry | 11 |
Paradise Lost | 45 |
Voice and Crisis | 63 |
Copyright | |
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