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... pagan and Christian elements.1 It is now understood that Milton was using the pastoral conven- tion in the broader spirit of the Renaissance tradition . Yet the precise nature of the poem's structure , which depends on the dual ...
... pagan and Christian elements.1 It is now understood that Milton was using the pastoral conven- tion in the broader spirit of the Renaissance tradition . Yet the precise nature of the poem's structure , which depends on the dual ...
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... pagan world ultimately to accept the joyous truth of Lycidas's resurrection . The catalogue of flowers , in which each flower is so wonderfully evoked as to seem an individualized presence , represents an invitation to this world to ...
... pagan world ultimately to accept the joyous truth of Lycidas's resurrection . The catalogue of flowers , in which each flower is so wonderfully evoked as to seem an individualized presence , represents an invitation to this world to ...
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... pagan world's mo- ment of deepest anguish and its ritual of unrivalled beauty . To describe this as ' too pretty - pretty , too conventionally poetic to carry a heavy emotional weight ' , is to miss the point of its psycho- logical ...
... pagan world's mo- ment of deepest anguish and its ritual of unrivalled beauty . To describe this as ' too pretty - pretty , too conventionally poetic to carry a heavy emotional weight ' , is to miss the point of its psycho- logical ...
Contents
Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
Copyright | |
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Aeneas Alexander Pope allusion appears Arabella Arbuthnot arguably Baron beauty Belinda Briton Bufo canto card-game character Christian companion poems contemporary context contrast coquette corruption couplet critics described Dido divine Dr Johnson dramatic dream Dryden earlier earthly lover echo English Epistle to Dr Essays example five-canto version grief heroine honour ibid Il Penseroso imagery implied inspiration interpretation introductory stanza John Milton Juvenal Juvenal's kind L'Allegro later lines literary Lock London Lycidas's Melancholy Milton's Lycidas moral Moreover motif Muses Nymph Orgilio Orpheus pagan Paradise Lost pastoral world Penseroso perhaps Phoebus poem's poet poet-speaker poetry Pope's portrait pride Rape reader reading reference regarded represented resurrection Samuel Johnson Sarpedon satire satirist seems sense significance Sporus St Peter suggest swain sylphs symbolic Thales Thalestris theme thou tion tradition Tuve Twickenham Twickenham editor two-handed engine Types of Lycidas Umbriel Verres verse verse-paragraph Walpole Walpole's woeful shepherds Wolsey words