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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The great Nativity Ode , which is clearly a fruit of the resolution recorded in the sixth elegy , brings us at once to a summit in Milton's early poetic achievement . Its immediate inspiration is the fervid and ornate religious verse of ...
The great Nativity Ode , which is clearly a fruit of the resolution recorded in the sixth elegy , brings us at once to a summit in Milton's early poetic achievement . Its immediate inspiration is the fervid and ornate religious verse of ...
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In the first book he subjects to sharp analysis the mythical story of pre - Roman Britain which had once appealed to him as material for imaginative recreation . He evidently enjoys recalling the legends but feels , as a sober historian ...
In the first book he subjects to sharp analysis the mythical story of pre - Roman Britain which had once appealed to him as material for imaginative recreation . He evidently enjoys recalling the legends but feels , as a sober historian ...
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In any case , it is apparent that the fact of blindness , once it had been accepted , was less perturbing than vain hope and the continued attempts to find a cure . Milton saved himself in part by a great religious rationalization ...
In any case , it is apparent that the fact of blindness , once it had been accepted , was less perturbing than vain hope and the continued attempts to find a cure . Milton saved himself in part by a great religious rationalization ...
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