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... Light , when Milton moves from hell to heaven , he recalls the difficult ascent of Orpheus and Aeneas from the underworld , and the difference between pagan poetry and his own sacred theme and between his physical blindness and his ...
... Light , when Milton moves from hell to heaven , he recalls the difficult ascent of Orpheus and Aeneas from the underworld , and the difference between pagan poetry and his own sacred theme and between his physical blindness and his ...
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... light recalls what once he was , Satan utters his first soliloquy ( IV . 32 f . ) , a grim contrast with the poet's invocation to Light which had opened book three . No longer haranguing his followers , Satan admits all his wickedness ...
... light recalls what once he was , Satan utters his first soliloquy ( IV . 32 f . ) , a grim contrast with the poet's invocation to Light which had opened book three . No longer haranguing his followers , Satan admits all his wickedness ...
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... light . " The ambiguous " light " suggests both physical grace and mental unawareness . The poet's compassion is expressed directly and then in the picture of her among the flowers which , molded in the same pattern as the earlier ...
... light . " The ambiguous " light " suggests both physical grace and mental unawareness . The poet's compassion is expressed directly and then in the picture of her among the flowers which , molded in the same pattern as the earlier ...
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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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