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Page 36
... insist too much on the obviously Spenserian lines and phrases in the earliest of Milton's shorter poems and on the perhaps not quite so obvious Spenserian parallels , such as the list of flowers in Lycidas , in the later ones , but one ...
... insist too much on the obviously Spenserian lines and phrases in the earliest of Milton's shorter poems and on the perhaps not quite so obvious Spenserian parallels , such as the list of flowers in Lycidas , in the later ones , but one ...
Page 94
... insist later , the letter containing the sonnet on his twenty- third birthday cannot have been written later than ... insisted , it is with the maturer art of the descriptive passages in Comus that L'Allegro and Il Penseroso associate ...
... insist later , the letter containing the sonnet on his twenty- third birthday cannot have been written later than ... insisted , it is with the maturer art of the descriptive passages in Comus that L'Allegro and Il Penseroso associate ...
Page 203
... insist that the Aminta is dramatic in a sense in which Comus is not . It does indeed contain arguments and debates , but these are only incidental , and its mainspring is the conflict between persons and passions , between Aminta's love ...
... insist that the Aminta is dramatic in a sense in which Comus is not . It does indeed contain arguments and debates , but these are only incidental , and its mainspring is the conflict between persons and passions , between Aminta's love ...
Contents
Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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allusion already appeared beautiful beginning bring called characteristic Christian classical comparison Comus conceit consider contemporaries continually dancing death described diction distinct Donne Donne's earlier earth edition elegy Elizabethan English epigrams example expression fact fair Fletcher flowers follows hand human imitation ingenious insist interesting Italy Jonson kind King L'Allegro Lament later Latin less light lines live Lycidas manner manuscript masque means melancholy mention merely Milton mind Muse Nativity nature never Nevertheless night occurs original passage pastoral Penseroso perhaps phrase Platonic pleasures poem poetic poetry poets possible present probably published regarded remarked remembered seems sense seventeenth-century Shakespeare shepherd sing sometimes song sonnet soul speak Spenser spirit stanza style suggested things thought tradition translation true various verse Virgil Warton whole write written wrote