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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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... poet's authority ; most of them are among the great things in the poem and in poetry . While expressing personal ideas and emotions , Milton is also dramatizing himself as the blind poet - prophet , who is one with Blind Thamyris and ...
... poet's authority ; most of them are among the great things in the poem and in poetry . While expressing personal ideas and emotions , Milton is also dramatizing himself as the blind poet - prophet , who is one with Blind Thamyris and ...
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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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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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