Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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Page 36
... poem , printed it with a preface which was written for the certain end of explaining why he did not rhyme his poem . Either this preface must be allowed to mean that on this matter Milton spoke with his 1 ' Rhyme in Paradise Lost ...
... poem , printed it with a preface which was written for the certain end of explaining why he did not rhyme his poem . Either this preface must be allowed to mean that on this matter Milton spoke with his 1 ' Rhyme in Paradise Lost ...
Page 37
... poem itself leaves me with an impression of the absence rather than the presence of ' the jingling sound of like endings ' . A similar conclusion may be reached from the difficulty which arises with respect to rhyme in Homer and Vergil ...
... poem itself leaves me with an impression of the absence rather than the presence of ' the jingling sound of like endings ' . A similar conclusion may be reached from the difficulty which arises with respect to rhyme in Homer and Vergil ...
Page 129
... poem ' , a ' Tragedy coming forth after the antient manner ' of the classics of Greece , ' modelled ' by the ' rules ' of ' Eschulus , Sophocles , and Euripides , the three Tragic Poets unequall'd yet by any ' . But the reader who ...
... poem ' , a ' Tragedy coming forth after the antient manner ' of the classics of Greece , ' modelled ' by the ' rules ' of ' Eschulus , Sophocles , and Euripides , the three Tragic Poets unequall'd yet by any ' . But the reader who ...
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