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... Milton 179 Seventeenth Century Lyrics The Restoration : Bunyan , Dryden 199 206 V. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 992 The Augustan Age of English Prose . 222 The Poetry of Alexander Pope 249 Rise of the English Novel 265 Essayists of the Second ...
... Milton 179 Seventeenth Century Lyrics The Restoration : Bunyan , Dryden 199 206 V. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 992 The Augustan Age of English Prose . 222 The Poetry of Alexander Pope 249 Rise of the English Novel 265 Essayists of the Second ...
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... Milton , who was later to succeed him as a master in the field of epic poetry , he entered into few of the comfortable advantages which enriched the boyhood of those poets . His parents were poor , al- though connected , as the poet ...
... Milton , who was later to succeed him as a master in the field of epic poetry , he entered into few of the comfortable advantages which enriched the boyhood of those poets . His parents were poor , al- though connected , as the poet ...
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... Milton in his Lycidas gave a tone of serious dignity to the pastoral . And more than a hundred years after Spenser's day we find the same machinery used in The Pastorals of Alexander Pope . But The Shepherd's Calendar was full of the ...
... Milton in his Lycidas gave a tone of serious dignity to the pastoral . And more than a hundred years after Spenser's day we find the same machinery used in The Pastorals of Alexander Pope . But The Shepherd's Calendar was full of the ...
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... Milton names his dramatic poem , modeled after the ancient drama , Samson Agonistes , the struggling Samson . In tragedy the antagonizing force is stronger than the hero , and the drama ends in catastrophe and defeat . Now in the ...
... Milton names his dramatic poem , modeled after the ancient drama , Samson Agonistes , the struggling Samson . In tragedy the antagonizing force is stronger than the hero , and the drama ends in catastrophe and defeat . Now in the ...
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... Milton . III . Seventeenth Century Lyrics . IV . The Restoration : John Bunyan , John Dryden . I. THE LAST OF THE ELIZABETHANS : BACON . are IT has , perhaps , been noted that the term Eliza- bethan , as used to designate an epoch in ...
... Milton . III . Seventeenth Century Lyrics . IV . The Restoration : John Bunyan , John Dryden . I. THE LAST OF THE ELIZABETHANS : BACON . are IT has , perhaps , been noted that the term Eliza- bethan , as used to designate an epoch in ...
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