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... true that the system did tend to encourage the servile and indiscriminate imitation of those authors . One could not reasonably expect much more from the average boy of grammar- school age . But if in practice , in school and out of ...
... true that the system did tend to encourage the servile and indiscriminate imitation of those authors . One could not reasonably expect much more from the average boy of grammar- school age . But if in practice , in school and out of ...
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... true epic is the attempt to express a way of life , and an attitude toward it , which will enable man to live out his days " upon the rack of this tough world , " if not exactly happily , at least with honor and dignity . Let us look ...
... true epic is the attempt to express a way of life , and an attitude toward it , which will enable man to live out his days " upon the rack of this tough world , " if not exactly happily , at least with honor and dignity . Let us look ...
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... True , Homer himself is critical of his hero's conduct , but it seems to be equally true that the Greek chieftains understand and to some extent at least sympathize with Achilles ' point of view . After all , had not these same ...
... True , Homer himself is critical of his hero's conduct , but it seems to be equally true that the Greek chieftains understand and to some extent at least sympathize with Achilles ' point of view . After all , had not these same ...
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