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Page 97
... sing wth him in endlesse morne of light . This was Milton's second draft in its uncorrected form . Of the first draft , which it is impossible to reconstitute exactly , I will merely remark that it was only after many attempts and ...
... sing wth him in endlesse morne of light . This was Milton's second draft in its uncorrected form . Of the first draft , which it is impossible to reconstitute exactly , I will merely remark that it was only after many attempts and ...
Page 237
... sing about the golden tree ' , there is industrious and select reading . Ovid , according to Warton , is the only ... singing of the Hesperides : Where even until yesterday the earth - serpent Ladon guarded golden apples in the dwelling ...
... sing about the golden tree ' , there is industrious and select reading . Ovid , according to Warton , is the only ... singing of the Hesperides : Where even until yesterday the earth - serpent Ladon guarded golden apples in the dwelling ...
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... Sing now ye shepheards daughters , sing no more.1 ( 1.165 ) Of Milton's appropriation or adaptation of classical phrases there are several notable examples in Lycidas . It is commonly said that the memorable ' build the lofty rhyme ...
... Sing now ye shepheards daughters , sing no more.1 ( 1.165 ) Of Milton's appropriation or adaptation of classical phrases there are several notable examples in Lycidas . It is commonly said that the memorable ' build the lofty rhyme ...
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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