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... epic games , the reported narrative of events that preceded the initial plunge in medias res , verbal and physical battle , the prophetic unfolding of history , and of course celestial agencies . While the classical epics stressed the ...
... epic games , the reported narrative of events that preceded the initial plunge in medias res , verbal and physical battle , the prophetic unfolding of history , and of course celestial agencies . While the classical epics stressed the ...
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... epic magnificence . For Milton the poetry of Della Casa and Tasso and ' Tasso's critical discourses were probably of special value . But , even if the Italians had never existed , Milton's classi- cal instincts and his conception of the ...
... epic magnificence . For Milton the poetry of Della Casa and Tasso and ' Tasso's critical discourses were probably of special value . But , even if the Italians had never existed , Milton's classi- cal instincts and his conception of the ...
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... epic to write the drama , and unlikely also that he would not have followed up the epic with its sequel . We may then - if we are quite unmoved by recent arguments for a date before 1660- think of Samson as his last poetic utterance ...
... epic to write the drama , and unlikely also that he would not have followed up the epic with its sequel . We may then - if we are quite unmoved by recent arguments for a date before 1660- think of Samson as his last poetic utterance ...
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