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... imaginative , verbal , and rhythmical crescendo . The ordered process of nature can again be appealed to , in the analogy of the sun , and images of water , no longer woeful , reach a climax in the simple and tender peri- phrasis ...
... imaginative , verbal , and rhythmical crescendo . The ordered process of nature can again be appealed to , in the analogy of the sun , and images of water , no longer woeful , reach a climax in the simple and tender peri- phrasis ...
Page 143
... imaginative treat- ments of the creation and the fall written over many cen- turies . How many of these Milton knew we cannot tell , nor does it matter . Sylvester's flamboyant and popular rendering of Du Bartas's epic of creation ...
... imaginative treat- ments of the creation and the fall written over many cen- turies . How many of these Milton knew we cannot tell , nor does it matter . Sylvester's flamboyant and popular rendering of Du Bartas's epic of creation ...
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... imaginative and emotional responses . Milton's unique power in the exploitation of them has led to the common charge that he made English a foreign lan- guage . Yet to discount the charge one has only to open the poem almost anywhere ...
... imaginative and emotional responses . Milton's unique power in the exploitation of them has led to the common charge that he made English a foreign lan- guage . Yet to discount the charge one has only to open the poem almost anywhere ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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