Milton: the Critical Heritage, Volume 2Routledge & K. Paul, 1970 - 276 pages |
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Page 151
... Characters . Homer has excelled all the Heroic Poets that ever wrote , in the Multi- tude and Variety of his Characters . Every God that is admitted into his Poem , acts a Part which would have been suitable to no other Deity . His ...
... Characters . Homer has excelled all the Heroic Poets that ever wrote , in the Multi- tude and Variety of his Characters . Every God that is admitted into his Poem , acts a Part which would have been suitable to no other Deity . His ...
Page 152
... Characters of his Poem , both as to their Variety and Novelty . Aeneas is indeed a perfect Charac- ter , but as for Achates , tho ' he is stiled the Heroe's Friend , he does noth- ing in the whole Poem which may deserve that Title ...
... Characters of his Poem , both as to their Variety and Novelty . Aeneas is indeed a perfect Charac- ter , but as for Achates , tho ' he is stiled the Heroe's Friend , he does noth- ing in the whole Poem which may deserve that Title ...
Page 155
... Characters in Milton's Paradise Lost : The Parts which remain to be consider'd , accord- ing to Aristotle's Method , are the Sentiments and the Language . Before I enter upon the first of these , I must advertise my Reader , that it is ...
... Characters in Milton's Paradise Lost : The Parts which remain to be consider'd , accord- ing to Aristotle's Method , are the Sentiments and the Language . Before I enter upon the first of these , I must advertise my Reader , that it is ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Personal Statements and Contemporary Evaluations 16281674 | 4 |
Early writing preferences 1628 | 35 |
Copyright | |
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Action Adam and Eve Addison admirable Aeneas Aeneid Allegory allusions ancient appear Aristotle Author Battel beautiful blank verse Book of Paradise century Characters Charles Gildon Circumstances Creation criticism Death described Description Divine Dryden Earth edition Epic Poem Epick Episode Extract from John Fable fame Fault Genius give Gods hath Heaven Hero Heroic Poem Homer Homer and Virgil Ideas Iliad Images Imagination Imitation infernal Invention John Dennis John Dryden John Milton Judgment kind Language Latin learned Leonard Welsted likewise literary Majesty Mankind Manner Milton's Poem Mind modern Nature noble Numbers observe Opinion Paradise Lost Paradise Regain'd particular Passage Passion Persons Place Poet Poetical Poetry proper prose Reader Religion Remarks represented rhyme Samson Agonistes Satan Scripture Sentiments shew shewn Sonnet 17 speak Spectator Speech Spirit Stile Subject sublime take Notice thing thou Thoughts tion Tragedy Translated Virgil wherein whole Poem Words World writ writing