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... heroic figure in English poetry , not merely because he composed the great Eng- lish epic but because he was a personality of heroic stature whose experience , as we follow it , becomes itself a heroic poem or drama , and a very moving ...
... heroic figure in English poetry , not merely because he composed the great Eng- lish epic but because he was a personality of heroic stature whose experience , as we follow it , becomes itself a heroic poem or drama , and a very moving ...
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... heroic themes he had the special precedent of Tasso , and , in spirit though not in form , the patriotic odes of Horace . As Wordsworth said , when a damp Fell round the path of Milton , in his hand The Thing became a trumpet ; whence ...
... heroic themes he had the special precedent of Tasso , and , in spirit though not in form , the patriotic odes of Horace . As Wordsworth said , when a damp Fell round the path of Milton , in his hand The Thing became a trumpet ; whence ...
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... heroic and figurative treatment of religious and moral ideas ; in what- ever ways Milton differed from or went beyond Spenser , he was clearly of the same religious , cultural , and poetic lineage . In the prelude to book nine Milton ...
... heroic and figurative treatment of religious and moral ideas ; in what- ever ways Milton differed from or went beyond Spenser , he was clearly of the same religious , cultural , and poetic lineage . In the prelude to book nine Milton ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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