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... English poetry . With typical straightforwardness , Milton comes to the point at once . " The Measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime , as that of Homer in Greek and of Virgil in Latin . ” He goes on to condemn the use of rhyme ...
... English poetry . With typical straightforwardness , Milton comes to the point at once . " The Measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime , as that of Homer in Greek and of Virgil in Latin . ” He goes on to condemn the use of rhyme ...
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... English language a sonority like that of Greek and Latin . " 8 In fact , in Murray's opinion , it is precisely Dryden's failure to recapture in English Virgil's authentic music which constitutes his greatest failure . " If one asks why ...
... English language a sonority like that of Greek and Latin . " 8 In fact , in Murray's opinion , it is precisely Dryden's failure to recapture in English Virgil's authentic music which constitutes his greatest failure . " If one asks why ...
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... English , and Milton must have been only too aware that the backward path was strewn with acknowledged failures . No poet had ever succeeded in raising it to the prescribed loftiness . Two eminent critics , Dr. Johnson in the eighteenth ...
... English , and Milton must have been only too aware that the backward path was strewn with acknowledged failures . No poet had ever succeeded in raising it to the prescribed loftiness . Two eminent critics , Dr. Johnson in the eighteenth ...
Contents
Chapter One FIT AUDIENCE | 1 |
Chapter Two NOT LESS BUT MORE HEROIC ས ༤ | 40 |
Chapter Four THE VEIL OF INNOCENCE | 67 |
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