Milton's Prose Tracts as a Gloss on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson AgonistesStanford University, 1971 - 648 pages |
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... party hack . The most recent representative of this line of criticism is William Empson ( Milton's God , 1961 ) . Empson tells us that he him- self was for a while a political propagandist for Britain during the second World War , and ...
... party hack . The most recent representative of this line of criticism is William Empson ( Milton's God , 1961 ) . Empson tells us that he him- self was for a while a political propagandist for Britain during the second World War , and ...
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... political prose has been possible only because the basic belief underlying and unifying all of Milton's causes and methods has gone unrecognized by them . It has , however , received full recognition and analysis in Milton and the ...
... political prose has been possible only because the basic belief underlying and unifying all of Milton's causes and methods has gone unrecognized by them . It has , however , received full recognition and analysis in Milton and the ...
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... political " liberal " ( cf. p . 15 ) , approved what he understood to be Milton's political ends and enjoyed his purported means . Thus Empson could go on to applaud the exposé of the " wicked " God of Paradise Lost ( only a ...
... political " liberal " ( cf. p . 15 ) , approved what he understood to be Milton's political ends and enjoyed his purported means . Thus Empson could go on to applaud the exposé of the " wicked " God of Paradise Lost ( only a ...
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