The Minor Poems in English [of] John Milton |
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... classical names but in the discovery of good , earthy English equiva- lents . And indeed his case is at first sight very persuasive . A name like Daphnis cannot have sounded ' classical ' to Theocritus as ' Lycidas ' sounded to Milton ...
... classical names but in the discovery of good , earthy English equiva- lents . And indeed his case is at first sight very persuasive . A name like Daphnis cannot have sounded ' classical ' to Theocritus as ' Lycidas ' sounded to Milton ...
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... classical tradition . More precisely , it appears in Comus as a struggle between the idiom of Greek drama and that of English . VII The language of Greek drama is , to put it mildly , odd . Anyone who wishes to find out more about this ...
... classical tradition . More precisely , it appears in Comus as a struggle between the idiom of Greek drama and that of English . VII The language of Greek drama is , to put it mildly , odd . Anyone who wishes to find out more about this ...
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... classical ' than Milton would have shrunk from using such ' un - classical ' words . The distinctively Miltonic blending of audacity and high literary discipline can be seen in such expressions as ' melodi- ous tear ' ( 14 ) . The ...
... classical ' than Milton would have shrunk from using such ' un - classical ' words . The distinctively Miltonic blending of audacity and high literary discipline can be seen in such expressions as ' melodi- ous tear ' ( 14 ) . The ...
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