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... Muse ' , who requires the shunning of delights and the living of laborious days , he means the muse of epic poetry , and that he is implicitly contrasting this muse with the elegiac muse which had inspired the celebrated Renaissance ...
... Muse ' , who requires the shunning of delights and the living of laborious days , he means the muse of epic poetry , and that he is implicitly contrasting this muse with the elegiac muse which had inspired the celebrated Renaissance ...
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... Muse . The first part of the first digression contains both a distinction between two kinds of muse and also a definite allusion : Alas ! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherds trade , And strictly ...
... Muse . The first part of the first digression contains both a distinction between two kinds of muse and also a definite allusion : Alas ! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherds trade , And strictly ...
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... Muse herself that makes me a little uncertain as to whether Milton is really apostrophising the nymphs both as guardian spirits and , Virgilianly , as Muses . Or is his meaning something like : ' What could mere British muses have ...
... Muse herself that makes me a little uncertain as to whether Milton is really apostrophising the nymphs both as guardian spirits and , Virgilianly , as Muses . Or is his meaning something like : ' What could mere British muses have ...
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Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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