John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryPresents close analyses of the seventeenth-century poet's literary works, focusing on his use of classical and Biblical allusions |
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He was writing for an audience of readers who had been trained , like himself ,
upon classical literature . Shakespeare may have had “ small Latin and less
Greek , ” but he had a great deal more Latin than most college students today .
He was writing for an audience of readers who had been trained , like himself ,
upon classical literature . Shakespeare may have had “ small Latin and less
Greek , ” but he had a great deal more Latin than most college students today .
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A Reader's Guide to His Poetry Marjorie Hope Nicolson. lowing classical
example , Milton took for granted that the epic poet would at once state the theme
of his work and invoke a Muse . Homer began the Iliad ( in Pope's translation )
Achilles ...
A Reader's Guide to His Poetry Marjorie Hope Nicolson. lowing classical
example , Milton took for granted that the epic poet would at once state the theme
of his work and invoke a Muse . Homer began the Iliad ( in Pope's translation )
Achilles ...
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Since a Muse was invoked by a classical poet to aid him in what he was
attempting to write , Milton asks his Muse to lead him higher than the “ Aonian
mount ” of the classical poets , since the subject of his epic is “ higher ” than theirs
. Here our ...
Since a Muse was invoked by a classical poet to aid him in what he was
attempting to write , Milton asks his Muse to lead him higher than the “ Aonian
mount ” of the classical poets , since the subject of his epic is “ higher ” than theirs
. Here our ...
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The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
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| Título | John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His Poetry |
| Autor | Marjorie Hope Nicolson |
| Edición | reimpresa |
| Editor | Octagon Books, 1983 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 25 Jul. 2011 |
| ISBN | 0882549677, 9780882549675 |
| Largo | 385 páginas |
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