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Page 118
... Paradise Lost , calls The rigid satisfaction , death for death . It is too often supposed that the legalism which pervades so much of the celestial speeches in Paradise Lost is something characteristically Miltonic , whereas it is ...
... Paradise Lost , calls The rigid satisfaction , death for death . It is too often supposed that the legalism which pervades so much of the celestial speeches in Paradise Lost is something characteristically Miltonic , whereas it is ...
Page 210
... Paradise Regained . For Paradise Regained , in spite of obvious differences which I need not insist upon , may also be described as a semi- dramatic , philosophic , moral and religious debate , diversified with passages of description ...
... Paradise Regained . For Paradise Regained , in spite of obvious differences which I need not insist upon , may also be described as a semi- dramatic , philosophic , moral and religious debate , diversified with passages of description ...
Page 287
... Paradise Regained . I do not say that the Milton of Lycidas had either experienced his Christianity so profoundly or integrated it to the same extent with his humanism as had the Milton of Paradise Regained : nevertheless , here already ...
... Paradise Regained . I do not say that the Milton of Lycidas had either experienced his Christianity so profoundly or integrated it to the same extent with his humanism as had the Milton of Paradise Regained : nevertheless , here already ...
Contents
Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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