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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I call your attention particularly to words which our Renaissance ancestors used
in their Latin meaning , rather than our modern , or which could be used in both
senses with an interesting double - play . When Milton wrote in the Nativity Ode ...
I call your attention particularly to words which our Renaissance ancestors used
in their Latin meaning , rather than our modern , or which could be used in both
senses with an interesting double - play . When Milton wrote in the Nativity Ode ...
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... Milton's extraordinary ability to say much in little , to cross - fertilize images until
they are so compressed and pregnant with meaning that they become the
despair of critics who spend their ingenuity in trying to find still more cryptic
meanings .
... Milton's extraordinary ability to say much in little , to cross - fertilize images until
they are so compressed and pregnant with meaning that they become the
despair of critics who spend their ingenuity in trying to find still more cryptic
meanings .
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Here , as so often , we find a double meaning , for in addition to the connotation
that we read into the word , Milton is remembering the meaning of “ wait on ” as
used so often in the Bible : “ Wait on the Lord ; be of good courage and He shall ...
Here , as so often , we find a double meaning , for in addition to the connotation
that we read into the word , Milton is remembering the meaning of “ wait on ” as
used so often in the Bible : “ Wait on the Lord ; be of good courage and He shall ...
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The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
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