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... poet can communicate only what he himself is , and should therefore himself be such a composi- tion of the good and honorable . Had Milton fed only on the Platonic critics of his age , he would not have thus identified poet , poem , and ...
... poet can communicate only what he himself is , and should therefore himself be such a composi- tion of the good and honorable . Had Milton fed only on the Platonic critics of his age , he would not have thus identified poet , poem , and ...
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... poet . If Milton had thought poetry a mere personal indulgence , he could have been content ; or if he had thought ... poet ever be freed by the stability of society to be a poet ? Yet a poet Milton felt himself to be , and only at ...
... poet . If Milton had thought poetry a mere personal indulgence , he could have been content ; or if he had thought ... poet ever be freed by the stability of society to be a poet ? Yet a poet Milton felt himself to be , and only at ...
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... poet Milton , but of poetry , that this function of interpreting and relating ' the best and sagest things ' is not arbitrarily assigned by him , but proper to the talents which we call poetic . Before we quote in its entirety the next ...
... poet Milton , but of poetry , that this function of interpreting and relating ' the best and sagest things ' is not arbitrarily assigned by him , but proper to the talents which we call poetic . Before we quote in its entirety the next ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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