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... Imitation in this sense was conceived of as a twofold process : the first step was to " analyze " the model in order to ascertain its virtues and the artistic principles underlying them . The second step was to apply these principles in ...
... Imitation in this sense was conceived of as a twofold process : the first step was to " analyze " the model in order to ascertain its virtues and the artistic principles underlying them . The second step was to apply these principles in ...
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... imitation . Of the one hundred and forty lines of the poem , the first twenty- four constitute a kind of proem , in which the poet announces that spring has arrived and that , with its coming , he has felt the first mysterious stirrings ...
... imitation . Of the one hundred and forty lines of the poem , the first twenty- four constitute a kind of proem , in which the poet announces that spring has arrived and that , with its coming , he has felt the first mysterious stirrings ...
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... imitating the classical authors may even appear to have been based upon that premise . And it is no doubt true that the system did tend to encourage the servile and indiscriminate imitation of those authors . One could not reasonably ...
... imitating the classical authors may even appear to have been based upon that premise . And it is no doubt true that the system did tend to encourage the servile and indiscriminate imitation of those authors . One could not reasonably ...
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