ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page viii
... English scholar ; he published a grammar containing many extracts from English poets , notably Spenser ; it is reasonable to assume that he had not a little to do with the encouragement and guidance of Milton's early taste for English ...
... English scholar ; he published a grammar containing many extracts from English poets , notably Spenser ; it is reasonable to assume that he had not a little to do with the encouragement and guidance of Milton's early taste for English ...
Page xi
... English poet in the same degree , even as the very breath of his being ; learning , too , all of art , especially music , that contemporary England could furnish ; wresting from modern languages and literatures their last secrets ; and ...
... English poet in the same degree , even as the very breath of his being ; learning , too , all of art , especially music , that contemporary England could furnish ; wresting from modern languages and literatures their last secrets ; and ...
Page xii
... English life and thought were passing , the clash between the care- less , pleasure - seeking Cavalier world and the deepening austerity of Puritanism . In L'Allegro the poet holds the balance almost equal between the two opposing ...
... English life and thought were passing , the clash between the care- less , pleasure - seeking Cavalier world and the deepening austerity of Puritanism . In L'Allegro the poet holds the balance almost equal between the two opposing ...
Page xiii
... English verse ; and then - the pity of it- he resigns his place among poets , gives himself up to politics , and for nearly twenty years suffers his lyre to hang mute and rusty in the temple of the Muses . Travels in Italy ; close of ...
... English verse ; and then - the pity of it- he resigns his place among poets , gives himself up to politics , and for nearly twenty years suffers his lyre to hang mute and rusty in the temple of the Muses . Travels in Italy ; close of ...
Page xiv
John Milton. of the English lyrics : the Epitaphium , which should be studied in close connection with Lycidas , the last of the long Latin poems . Thenceforth , for a long spell , the rest was silence , so far as concerned poetry . The ...
John Milton. of the English lyrics : the Epitaphium , which should be studied in close connection with Lycidas , the last of the long Latin poems . Thenceforth , for a long spell , the rest was silence , so far as concerned poetry . The ...
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