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Page 56
... speak out , with more of prophetic licence , just as he had in ' Lycidas ' at about the same time . The time 1637-8 begins to look like a time to speak out . In his two major poems of the 1630s , then , Milton realised the occasions ...
... speak out , with more of prophetic licence , just as he had in ' Lycidas ' at about the same time . The time 1637-8 begins to look like a time to speak out . In his two major poems of the 1630s , then , Milton realised the occasions ...
Page 188
... speak to its times . Thus , I have wanted to think primarily of Paradise Lost as it might have impacted upon 1667 ... speak is always strong in him , and indeed the two poems are partly about achieving readiness for occasion . I shall ...
... speak to its times . Thus , I have wanted to think primarily of Paradise Lost as it might have impacted upon 1667 ... speak is always strong in him , and indeed the two poems are partly about achieving readiness for occasion . I shall ...
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... speak , then , not only out of a situation which can be radically fictionalised as that of idolatrous oppression , but also more broadly of the experience of a long struggle in the cause of godly reformation . It shares with its readers ...
... speak , then , not only out of a situation which can be radically fictionalised as that of idolatrous oppression , but also more broadly of the experience of a long struggle in the cause of godly reformation . It shares with its readers ...
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the Vacation Exercise and Early Latin | 1 |
the Nativity Ode | 19 |
Italy Politics and the Voice of Authority | 59 |
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