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 81
The chief poetic fruitage of this high moment in Milton's Florentine experience is to be found in a celebrated passage in Book I of Paradise Lost , where the poet likens the huge circumference of Satan's shield to the moon whose orb ...
The chief poetic fruitage of this high moment in Milton's Florentine experience is to be found in a celebrated passage in Book I of Paradise Lost , where the poet likens the huge circumference of Satan's shield to the moon whose orb ...
Page 104
There is no more dramatic or more powerful passage in the poem . A similar invocation opens the second scene of Andreini and a goat - hoofed Satan is depicted on the stage amid hellish smoke , threatening his creator .
There is no more dramatic or more powerful passage in the poem . A similar invocation opens the second scene of Andreini and a goat - hoofed Satan is depicted on the stage amid hellish smoke , threatening his creator .
Page 226
Both passages , however , are illustrative of the degree to which Milton had grasped the central motive of Greek tragedy and the pains he was at to bring his own material under the ethical , religious , and artistic formulae afforded by ...
Both passages , however , are illustrative of the degree to which Milton had grasped the central motive of Greek tragedy and the pains he was at to bring his own material under the ethical , religious , and artistic formulae afforded by ...
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| Title | John Milton, Englishman Bonanza paperback |
| Author | James Holly Hanford |
| Publisher | Crown Publishers, 1949 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 272 pages |
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