The Living Milton: Essays by Various HandsFrank Kermode |
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... less egotistical than Milton's other poems . My point is that we must not accept it simply as part of ' the ... less anxiously arrogant art , in which nature has more play , and spirit is less Platonic : an art , and an ethic ...
... less egotistical than Milton's other poems . My point is that we must not accept it simply as part of ' the ... less anxiously arrogant art , in which nature has more play , and spirit is less Platonic : an art , and an ethic ...
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... less simple , sensuous , and passionate , altogether less primitive . We are reminded that ' the conception that man is mortal , by his nature and essence , seems to be entirely alien to mythical and primitive religious thought'.1 In ...
... less simple , sensuous , and passionate , altogether less primitive . We are reminded that ' the conception that man is mortal , by his nature and essence , seems to be entirely alien to mythical and primitive religious thought'.1 In ...
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... less and less accessible . With these thoughts in my mind , I sometimes feel that the shift of attention necessary to make friends out of some of Milton's most potent modern enemies is in reality a very small one . How- ever this may be ...
... less and less accessible . With these thoughts in my mind , I sometimes feel that the shift of attention necessary to make friends out of some of Milton's most potent modern enemies is in reality a very small one . How- ever this may be ...
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THE NATIVITY ODE J B Broadbent | 12 |
APPROACHES TO LYCIDAS G S Fraser | 32 |
IV | 55 |
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