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... poets . Milton may be called the most 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 ...
... poets . Milton may be called the most 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 ...
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... poetry , he is more accessible to any intelligent and educated reader than a multitude of less learned and more fashionable poets . Milton the artist , like Milton the thinker , was always developing . His early Spenserianism was soon ...
... poetry , he is more accessible to any intelligent and educated reader than a multitude of less learned and more fashionable poets . Milton the artist , like Milton the thinker , was always developing . His early Spenserianism was soon ...
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... poetry of ideas can be ( though indeed all his poetry is that ) , and for another example there are those lines ( V.620 f . ) that illustrate his Platonic sense of the planetary orbits as a paradigm of divine order : the dance of angels ...
... poetry of ideas can be ( though indeed all his poetry is that ) , and for another example there are those lines ( V.620 f . ) that illustrate his Platonic sense of the planetary orbits as a paradigm of divine order : the dance of angels ...
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