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... least misleading conno- tations for most modern readers . It seems to imply that , by diligent searching , formulae may be found for constructing a synthetic poem . The Renaissance grammar - school methods of studying and imitating the ...
... least misleading conno- tations for most modern readers . It seems to imply that , by diligent searching , formulae may be found for constructing a synthetic poem . The Renaissance grammar - school methods of studying and imitating the ...
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... least two other reasons why Milton resorts to transla- tion . Sometimes he may do so in order to stamp a word with its Latin signification , thereby often adding a new dimension to its possible meanings . Thus , in the First Book of ...
... least two other reasons why Milton resorts to transla- tion . Sometimes he may do so in order to stamp a word with its Latin signification , thereby often adding a new dimension to its possible meanings . Thus , in the First Book of ...
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... least a partial solution . “ I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself have spoken , if he had been born in England , and in this present age " ( II , 228 ) . In common with most other poets of his day ...
... least a partial solution . “ I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself have spoken , if he had been born in England , and in this present age " ( II , 228 ) . In common with most other poets of his day ...
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