The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost, Volume 10Chatto & Windus, 1962 - 227 pages |
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Page 13
... already responded to his prayer : she has already begun to sing . Long before Paradise Lost , the Heavenly Muse had shown something of the literary method by which man could write an " impossible " poem . In the Scriptures she had ...
... already responded to his prayer : she has already begun to sing . Long before Paradise Lost , the Heavenly Muse had shown something of the literary method by which man could write an " impossible " poem . In the Scriptures she had ...
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... already partly knows the language of the poem . But the advantage is only initial , since the " ignorant " reader will be granted every opportunity to learn the language : he must only be patient . He is told what im- mediately concerns ...
... already partly knows the language of the poem . But the advantage is only initial , since the " ignorant " reader will be granted every opportunity to learn the language : he must only be patient . He is told what im- mediately concerns ...
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... already working in the opening lines . Before we are projected far on that astonishing series of phrases and clauses which push forward , intellectually and spatially , beyond what we would have thought possible in two English sentences ...
... already working in the opening lines . Before we are projected far on that astonishing series of phrases and clauses which push forward , intellectually and spatially , beyond what we would have thought possible in two English sentences ...
Contents
Preface page | ix |
The Beginning | 11 |
Satan Sin and Death | 32 |
Copyright | |
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