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Page 147
... elaborate description which Olympia , the spirit of Boccaccio's dead daugh- ter , gives of Paradise and her happiness there . I am unable to find traces in any of these poems of direct influence on Milton's Lycidas . The practice of ...
... elaborate description which Olympia , the spirit of Boccaccio's dead daugh- ter , gives of Paradise and her happiness there . I am unable to find traces in any of these poems of direct influence on Milton's Lycidas . The practice of ...
Page 236
... elaborate allegory , their emphasis on choric utterance , and their restricted action made necessary by the preservation of the unities , precluded the possibility of any such psychological evolution as we have found in Paradise Lost ...
... elaborate allegory , their emphasis on choric utterance , and their restricted action made necessary by the preservation of the unities , precluded the possibility of any such psychological evolution as we have found in Paradise Lost ...
Page 250
... elaborate review of the things of this world considered as objects of desire applies to all mankind . The extension and em- phasis of the account can hardly be explained except on the supposition that Milton was aiming chiefly at this ...
... elaborate review of the things of this world considered as objects of desire applies to all mankind . The extension and em- phasis of the account can hardly be explained except on the supposition that Milton was aiming chiefly at this ...
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The Youth of Milton | 1 |
Milton and the Art of | 161 |
6 The Dramatic Element in Paradise Lost | 208 |
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