Selected Shorter Poems and Prose WritingsIncludes Comus, Lycidas, and extracts from the prose, such as the early pamphlet, Of Reformation, and the celebrated Areopagitica in defence of freedom of the press. |
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... writing of this kind there is always a strain , a feeling of tensed energies at once sustaining and subverting the arching spans and dangerous equilibrium of the language , like a suspension bridge or a high - wire act . A lot of the ...
... writing of this kind there is always a strain , a feeling of tensed energies at once sustaining and subverting the arching spans and dangerous equilibrium of the language , like a suspension bridge or a high - wire act . A lot of the ...
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... writer himself being written by compulsions outside his conscious control : Milton called it his ' heavenly muse ' , the inbreathing of the holy spirit . In any case , there are many reasons for writing , and worldly success , or fame ...
... writer himself being written by compulsions outside his conscious control : Milton called it his ' heavenly muse ' , the inbreathing of the holy spirit . In any case , there are many reasons for writing , and worldly success , or fame ...
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... writing ( as opposed to functional literacy ) is taught only at the end of nine years of intensive study , the final and the highest of practical accomplishments . And now lastly will be the time to read with them those organic arts ...
... writing ( as opposed to functional literacy ) is taught only at the end of nine years of intensive study , the final and the highest of practical accomplishments . And now lastly will be the time to read with them those organic arts ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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