Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page viii
... Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , and , less osten- sibly since it is a less discursive poem , Samson Agonistes . I have followed the argument where it led , and , I trust , duly acknowledged the fact when it led beyond Plato ...
... Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , and , less osten- sibly since it is a less discursive poem , Samson Agonistes . I have followed the argument where it led , and , I trust , duly acknowledged the fact when it led beyond Plato ...
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... Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained to the same test as we earlier put Comus , and we get a different result . Suppose Plato were dealing with the loss of human happiness , would he give the same explanation as Milton in the tale of ...
... Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained to the same test as we earlier put Comus , and we get a different result . Suppose Plato were dealing with the loss of human happiness , would he give the same explanation as Milton in the tale of ...
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... Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , and Samson Agonistes ; it is Mil- ton's own . And now the influence has its real effect , being no longer in process of assimilation , but absorbed in the life- blood . But even those who deny that ...
... Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , and Samson Agonistes ; it is Mil- ton's own . And now the influence has its real effect , being no longer in process of assimilation , but absorbed in the life- blood . But even those who deny that ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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