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... religious or courtly or both . The transition from songs of innocence to songs of experience came with the reverberating inner conflicts of Lycidas . After his Italian tour , when , follow- ing the natural course of a Renaissance poet's ...
... religious or courtly or both . The transition from songs of innocence to songs of experience came with the reverberating inner conflicts of Lycidas . After his Italian tour , when , follow- ing the natural course of a Renaissance poet's ...
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... religious faith was rather purified than defeated . He never lost his vision of perfection , though its content changed . In early poems , from some Latin elegies and the Nativity to Lycidas , it had been quite literally a glimpse of ...
... religious faith was rather purified than defeated . He never lost his vision of perfection , though its content changed . In early poems , from some Latin elegies and the Nativity to Lycidas , it had been quite literally a glimpse of ...
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... religious and civil wisdom . Areopagitica has often been loosely cited as a plea for complete freedom of speech , which it is not . The most liberal seventeenth - century mind would endorse the mod- ern dictum that no one has the right ...
... religious and civil wisdom . Areopagitica has often been loosely cited as a plea for complete freedom of speech , which it is not . The most liberal seventeenth - century mind would endorse the mod- ern dictum that no one has the right ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
Copyright | |
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Adam and Eve Adam's allusions angels anonymous appeared Areopagitica Aubrey blank verse blind caesura Cambridge Christ Christian classical Comus contrast creation critical death despair Diodati divine doctrine drama Dryden earlier earth earthly echoes edition Elegy English epic epic games evil Eyeless in Gaza fable faith fame father friends glory God's Greek heaven hell heroic human humanist humble ideal ideas imaginative invocation Italian John Milton King later Latin less liberty lines live Lycidas Marchamont Needham Milton's early mind modern moral Muse nature pamphlets Paradise Lost Paradise Regained parliament passage perhaps Phillips phrase poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise pride Prolusion prose Puritan readers Reason of Church religious Renaissance rhythm Samson Samson Agonistes Satan Second Defence sense Smectymnuus songs sonnet speech Spenser style thee theme things Thomas Ellwood thou thought tion tract tradition virtue vision writing