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... Milton himself felt bound to re - think their bearings in relation to the received traditions . In his treatise , The Seven- teenth Century Background , Basil Willey makes the point that , with allegorists like Browne , Milton too ...
... Milton himself felt bound to re - think their bearings in relation to the received traditions . In his treatise , The Seven- teenth Century Background , Basil Willey makes the point that , with allegorists like Browne , Milton too ...
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... Milton tried to fuse Virgil and Dante , the epic manner of the former and the theological insights of the latter . This meant creating a new style , which is best summed up by the word ' sub- lime ' . The epic casts a spell on the ...
... Milton tried to fuse Virgil and Dante , the epic manner of the former and the theological insights of the latter . This meant creating a new style , which is best summed up by the word ' sub- lime ' . The epic casts a spell on the ...
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... Milton's was ob- viously an ' artificial ' style , yet in his hands it became a mighty poetic instrument . Indeed , with Milton , ' style ' is a question more of vision than of technique : and it is the quality of the vision that ...
... Milton's was ob- viously an ' artificial ' style , yet in his hands it became a mighty poetic instrument . Indeed , with Milton , ' style ' is a question more of vision than of technique : and it is the quality of the vision that ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF LITERATURE AND THe | 3 |
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE | 21 |
BACKGROUNDS CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN | 42 |
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