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... borrow what they pleased , provided that their mo- tive was not simple theft . But the mere borrowing of verbal , stylistic , and structural details from other poets did not in itself constitute true imitation . Indeed , writes ...
... borrow what they pleased , provided that their mo- tive was not simple theft . But the mere borrowing of verbal , stylistic , and structural details from other poets did not in itself constitute true imitation . Indeed , writes ...
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... borrowing , the direct quotation . Milton seems to have availed himself of this poetic privilege whenever he thought he could preserve in English a certain power or beauty inhering in the original . So , in the description of Pande ...
... borrowing , the direct quotation . Milton seems to have availed himself of this poetic privilege whenever he thought he could preserve in English a certain power or beauty inhering in the original . So , in the description of Pande ...
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... borrowing a whole structural principle . In the Aeneid Mercury delivers his admonitory message , almost word - for ... borrowings , even the seemingly quite casual ones , can- not safely be ignored , for not only do they provide the ...
... borrowing a whole structural principle . In the Aeneid Mercury delivers his admonitory message , almost word - for ... borrowings , even the seemingly quite casual ones , can- not safely be ignored , for not only do they provide the ...
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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Achilles Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneas Aeneid allusion amorous authors beauty bee simile begins blank verse Book of Paradise borrowing Burning Lake Carthage comparison context death describes device Dido Dido's dream Dryden Earth edition editors English epic episode epithet Eve's eyes fact Fall Fallen Angels Fourth Book Georgic glory gods grammar Greek Heaven Hell hero heroic Homer Homer and Virgil Horace Iliad imitation influence innocent Juno Jupiter kind language Latin lines literary London meaning metaphor Milton Criticism mind Mount Ida Neoptolemus note to P.L. numbers Odysseus Odyssey Ovid Paradise Lost parallel passage Phaethon Phoebus phrase poem poet poetic poetry quoted Raphael reader Renaissance rhetorical rhythmical Roman Salmoneus Satan schoolboy sense serpents shore simile spear speech Spenser structure style Tellus thee thir thou tion Tityos tradition translation Trojans Troy Turnus Typhon verbal echo Virgil Virgilian writes Zeus