John Milton, EnglishmanChrist among the doctors - Academic exercise - Pastoral interlude - Italian journey - Paradise sort - Deeds above heroic - Heavenly muse - Milton Agonistes - Fair dismission___ |
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Page 104
... as ready to supply this literature , singlehanded or as the head of a group like - minded with himself for whom he might be able to supply the formula . We recall that he had already had the experience of successful masque writing .
... as ready to supply this literature , singlehanded or as the head of a group like - minded with himself for whom he might be able to supply the formula . We recall that he had already had the experience of successful masque writing .
Page 252
Such thoughts are those of a reverent and subtle mind confronted with the phenomenon of Milton's personality and genius and already sensitive to a critical and indeed a moral issue which has been the theme of much later comment .
Such thoughts are those of a reverent and subtle mind confronted with the phenomenon of Milton's personality and genius and already sensitive to a critical and indeed a moral issue which has been the theme of much later comment .
Page 256
Dryden's comments are already suggestive of these interests . England needed a major poet for veneration , and those of the remoter past did not quite do . Fader Chaucer was quaint and old ; Spenser deviated too far from the norm of ...
Dryden's comments are already suggestive of these interests . England needed a major poet for veneration , and those of the remoter past did not quite do . Fader Chaucer was quaint and old ; Spenser deviated too far from the norm of ...
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