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... important speculative questions . Or rather , the story told is centrally important to Milton precisely because it does raise ( and , so Milton would claim , it answers ) all these ques- tions , all the questions worth asking . But the ...
... important speculative questions . Or rather , the story told is centrally important to Milton precisely because it does raise ( and , so Milton would claim , it answers ) all these ques- tions , all the questions worth asking . But the ...
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... important respects . Scientific writing required a set vocabulary formed according to set principles , and it must therefore follow that poetry's needs were similar . This is the extreme conclusion . It is , of course , truer of some ...
... important respects . Scientific writing required a set vocabulary formed according to set principles , and it must therefore follow that poetry's needs were similar . This is the extreme conclusion . It is , of course , truer of some ...
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... important as that territory is ) , as for old words which scientific pressure causes to take on new meanings . An easily definable and very important area of the language , in which this process can be observed , is the vocabulary of ...
... important as that territory is ) , as for old words which scientific pressure causes to take on new meanings . An easily definable and very important area of the language , in which this process can be observed , is the vocabulary of ...
Contents
Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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