The Life of John MiltonThe author in this new biography of Milton sees the man whole, and in doing so enhances our understanding not only of his character but also of his poetry. |
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... poem ) is too well known to be worth quoting . Once again , however , it shows how Milton's personal preoccupations creep and intrude and climb into this poem and give it its peculiar and somewhat grotesque energy , transforming ...
... poem ) is too well known to be worth quoting . Once again , however , it shows how Milton's personal preoccupations creep and intrude and climb into this poem and give it its peculiar and somewhat grotesque energy , transforming ...
Page 208
... poem is ' the traditional Christian God ' , and the God in which Milton believed . But he both elaborates and qualifies more boldly than any other critic the Romantic belief , first voiced by Blake , that Milton , like all true poets ...
... poem is ' the traditional Christian God ' , and the God in which Milton believed . But he both elaborates and qualifies more boldly than any other critic the Romantic belief , first voiced by Blake , that Milton , like all true poets ...
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... poem . It was , as I have already quoted , written ' in a wonderful short space considering the sublimeness of it ' ; ' which makes me want to assign it to the closing years of the decade . Milton had not written a poem with Christ as ...
... poem . It was , as I have already quoted , written ' in a wonderful short space considering the sublimeness of it ' ; ' which makes me want to assign it to the closing years of the decade . Milton had not written a poem with Christ as ...
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