The Minor Poems in EnglishMacmillan, 1972 - 362 pages |
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Page 18
... truth is that Milton was too learned . A new sort of directness , of truth to evident facts , can be picked up by a clever man in a matter of hours . The power of organising three ancient literatures and two modern into a powerful and ...
... truth is that Milton was too learned . A new sort of directness , of truth to evident facts , can be picked up by a clever man in a matter of hours . The power of organising three ancient literatures and two modern into a powerful and ...
Page 49
... Truth is struggling with false Indulgence , she ought not to exaggerate . One simply is not able to believe the claim she makes . It smacks too much of Pros- pero taming the elements , too much , in short , of the magician . Comus is ...
... Truth is struggling with false Indulgence , she ought not to exaggerate . One simply is not able to believe the claim she makes . It smacks too much of Pros- pero taming the elements , too much , in short , of the magician . Comus is ...
Page 91
... truth and righteousness , the overthrow of the pagan gods and idolatrous religions — a bravura passage in which the young poet is somewhat carried away by his first grand orchestration of exotic names . Here , and throughout , images of ...
... truth and righteousness , the overthrow of the pagan gods and idolatrous religions — a bravura passage in which the young poet is somewhat carried away by his first grand orchestration of exotic names . Here , and throughout , images of ...
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2nd Brother ancient angels Apollo Arcades Ben Jonson birth Cambridge chastity Christ Christian classical Comus Comus's dance daughter death divine doth E. K. Chambers ears earth echoes Eclogue edition Edward Elder Brother English Essays eyes goddess gods golden grace Greek hast hath heav'n Henry Lawes honour Horace Hymenaei Il Penseroso Italian John Milton Jonson Jove King L'Allegro Lady language Latin light lines literary London Lord Lycidas lyric Mask masque Matt Midsummer Night's Dream Minor Poems morn muse Nativity Ode nature night nymph o'er Ovid pagan Paradise Lost pastoral elegy peace Penseroso phrase Pindar Plato poet poetic poetry praise queen religious Renaissance shades Shakespeare shepherds sing Smectymnuus solemn song Sonnet soul Spenser sphere Spirit star swain sweet thee theme Theocritus things thou tradition translation truth verse Virgil virtue winds wood word written youth