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Page 77
... diction in Milton's poetry than in Donne's or even in Jonson's , and why Milton , though a greater poet than Donne , is so much more imitative and literary , and why his kind of originality , unlike Donne's , did not consist in doing ...
... diction in Milton's poetry than in Donne's or even in Jonson's , and why Milton , though a greater poet than Donne , is so much more imitative and literary , and why his kind of originality , unlike Donne's , did not consist in doing ...
Page 148
... diction — almost , I might say , his ' poetic diction ' . Milton's indebtedness to Shakespeare's diction is sometimes direct and sometimes indirect : sometimes , that is , he appropriates Shakespearean phrases without , or with only ...
... diction — almost , I might say , his ' poetic diction ' . Milton's indebtedness to Shakespeare's diction is sometimes direct and sometimes indirect : sometimes , that is , he appropriates Shakespearean phrases without , or with only ...
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... DICTION ( 1 ) Classicism In this examination of the style and diction of Comus I propose 1 The Cambridge History of English Literature , vii . 124 . to proceed from the more general to the more particular ' COMUS ' 229 Style and diction ...
... DICTION ( 1 ) Classicism In this examination of the style and diction of Comus I propose 1 The Cambridge History of English Literature , vii . 124 . to proceed from the more general to the more particular ' COMUS ' 229 Style and diction ...
Contents
Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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