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... less learned and more fashionable poets . Milton the artist , like Milton the thinker , was always developing . His early Spenserianism was soon fused with clear - cut Jonsonian urbanity . In Lycidas and the occa- sional sonnets emerged ...
... less learned and more fashionable poets . Milton the artist , like Milton the thinker , was always developing . His early Spenserianism was soon fused with clear - cut Jonsonian urbanity . In Lycidas and the occa- sional sonnets emerged ...
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... less appear , That some more timely - happy spirits endu'th . Yet be it less or more , or soon or slow , It shall be still in strictest measure ev'n To that same lot , however mean or high , Toward which Time leads me , and the will of ...
... less appear , That some more timely - happy spirits endu'th . Yet be it less or more , or soon or slow , It shall be still in strictest measure ev'n To that same lot , however mean or high , Toward which Time leads me , and the will of ...
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... less on events , in their own day , al- though influence is hard to measure . Our chief guide is the body of allusions and echoes in print , and in the 1640's the larger portion of these had to do with Milton's views on divorce ; but in ...
... less on events , in their own day , al- though influence is hard to measure . Our chief guide is the body of allusions and echoes in print , and in the 1640's the larger portion of these had to do with Milton's views on divorce ; but in ...
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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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