Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 47
... effect on the audience , thus stating decisively— if in negative terms - that the ultimate function of poetry , as of every activity , must be to make men better . What Plato did , in effect , was to question the right of an art to ...
... effect on the audience , thus stating decisively— if in negative terms - that the ultimate function of poetry , as of every activity , must be to make men better . What Plato did , in effect , was to question the right of an art to ...
Page 56
... effect of a poetry properly guided by law ; Milton asserts that it is the effect proper to poetry . But obviously he can assert no such thing in the face of what actual poets often do , which Plato had considered before deciding that ...
... effect of a poetry properly guided by law ; Milton asserts that it is the effect proper to poetry . But obviously he can assert no such thing in the face of what actual poets often do , which Plato had considered before deciding that ...
Page 81
... effect of wealth . upon the clergy : When ministers came to have lands , houses , farms , coaches , horses , and the like lumber , then religion brought forth riches in the Church , and the daughter devoured the mother . ( 5.233 ...
... effect of wealth . upon the clergy : When ministers came to have lands , houses , farms , coaches , horses , and the like lumber , then religion brought forth riches in the Church , and the daughter devoured the mother . ( 5.233 ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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