Milton's Prose Tracts as a Gloss on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson AgonistesStanford University, 1971 - 648 pages |
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... 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 he attributes to Milton a certain deviousness of method , inevitably ...
... 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 he attributes to Milton a certain deviousness of method , inevitably ...
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... William Empson ( Milton's God , 1961 ) , following the practice of earlier critics since Kelley , looked for a gloss ... Empson's mistaken interpretation was allowed to stand . Except for Empson , critics of what Kelley called an ...
... William Empson ( Milton's God , 1961 ) , following the practice of earlier critics since Kelley , looked for a gloss ... Empson's mistaken interpretation was allowed to stand . Except for Empson , critics of what Kelley called an ...
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... William Empson welcomed such an influence enthusias- tically . Paradise Lost , he said , " is not good in spite of but especially because of its moral confusions ( its portrait of the traditional Christian God as wicked ] " ( p . 13 ) .
... William Empson welcomed such an influence enthusias- tically . Paradise Lost , he said , " is not good in spite of but especially because of its moral confusions ( its portrait of the traditional Christian God as wicked ] " ( p . 13 ) .
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