Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page viii
... reader , I have devoted the first two chapters to a factual account of Milton as a student of Plato and Platonists . Of his un- conscious or ' native ' Platonism I can pretend to no knowl- edge . Certainly much of his Platonizing ...
... reader , I have devoted the first two chapters to a factual account of Milton as a student of Plato and Platonists . Of his un- conscious or ' native ' Platonism I can pretend to no knowl- edge . Certainly much of his Platonizing ...
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... readers of his prose , who natu- rally are more struck by its more striking corollary , that needed and deliberate corrections of evil signify and pro- duce vitality . And now , with ... reader of poetry does not wish to 12 PLATO AND MILTON.
... readers of his prose , who natu- rally are more struck by its more striking corollary , that needed and deliberate corrections of evil signify and pro- duce vitality . And now , with ... reader of poetry does not wish to 12 PLATO AND MILTON.
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Irene Samuel. vinced . The reader of poetry does not wish to have foot- notes thrust into the text ; the reader of polemic writing insists upon them . Whether or not this difference in the type of Milton's writing was responsible , he ...
Irene Samuel. vinced . The reader of poetry does not wish to have foot- notes thrust into the text ; the reader of polemic writing insists upon them . Whether or not this difference in the type of Milton's writing was responsible , he ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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