The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost, Volume 10Chatto & Windus, 1962 - 227 pages |
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Page 17
... reader might receive added pleasures from recognizing echoes and allusions and parodies , Milton intended , I believe , that anyone who could read English literature should be able to read his poem . The popularity of the poem during ...
... reader might receive added pleasures from recognizing echoes and allusions and parodies , Milton intended , I believe , that anyone who could read English literature should be able to read his poem . The popularity of the poem during ...
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... reader should recognize the faults , and he was sure he knew what they were . The poem as a whole " comprises neither human actions nor human manners " with the result that the reader has " little natural curiosity or sympathy . " Its ...
... reader should recognize the faults , and he was sure he knew what they were . The poem as a whole " comprises neither human actions nor human manners " with the result that the reader has " little natural curiosity or sympathy . " Its ...
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... reader to recognize the inner dramatic necessity of events in literary works and still to be bored by them ; however necessary they may be to the characters in- volved , the reader may feel they are not at all necessary for him . By ...
... reader to recognize the inner dramatic necessity of events in literary works and still to be bored by them ; however necessary they may be to the characters in- volved , the reader may feel they are not at all necessary for him . By ...
Contents
Preface page | ix |
The Beginning | 11 |
Satan Sin and Death | 32 |
Copyright | |
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