Milton's Prose Tracts as a Gloss on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson AgonistesStanford University, 1971 - 648 pages |
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... readers as a guide to interpreting . his poetry . It would not do , of course , to say that it was because Milton thought his poetry too obscure for his educated con- temporary readers that he first wrote treatises in prose . But it ...
... readers as a guide to interpreting . his poetry . It would not do , of course , to say that it was because Milton thought his poetry too obscure for his educated con- temporary readers that he first wrote treatises in prose . But it ...
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... readers of his poems would be familiar with the basic views repeated and elabo- rated so extensively in his tracts . I would not maintain that he expected future generations of readers to go back over all of his tracts , but this does ...
... readers of his poems would be familiar with the basic views repeated and elabo- rated so extensively in his tracts . I would not maintain that he expected future generations of readers to go back over all of his tracts , but this does ...
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... readers unsympathetic to Milton's life and views , however , the autobiographical approach has led them to see in the play not " charm " but a narrow partisanship defended even in fiction by a simplistic philosophy which is redeemed ...
... readers unsympathetic to Milton's life and views , however , the autobiographical approach has led them to see in the play not " charm " but a narrow partisanship defended even in fiction by a simplistic philosophy which is redeemed ...
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