The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost, Volume 10Chatto & Windus, 1962 - 227 pages |
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Page ix
... Milton's ( or his Muse's ) method , poetic and religious . In writing about Milton , as in writing about Shakespeare , one's enormous debts to the living and the dead become inex- tricably entangled . For this reason , and because I ...
... Milton's ( or his Muse's ) method , poetic and religious . In writing about Milton , as in writing about Shakespeare , one's enormous debts to the living and the dead become inex- tricably entangled . For this reason , and because I ...
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... Milton's learning - or , perhaps more accurately , the problem of our own learning in relation to Milton's . We may have been told too often that Milton was the most learned of all the major English poets . Recently Mr David Daiches has ...
... Milton's learning - or , perhaps more accurately , the problem of our own learning in relation to Milton's . We may have been told too often that Milton was the most learned of all the major English poets . Recently Mr David Daiches has ...
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... Milton here certainly shows his close familiarity with the earlier poems and his present and future use of them ; but he also clearly indicates the independence and the novelty of his own poem . He is writing not a national epic but a ...
... Milton here certainly shows his close familiarity with the earlier poems and his present and future use of them ; but he also clearly indicates the independence and the novelty of his own poem . He is writing not a national epic but a ...
Contents
Preface page | ix |
The Beginning | 11 |
Satan Sin and Death | 32 |
Copyright | |
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