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... diction in their own poems . " In order to write like Milton , " it was said , " little more is required than to select certain peculiar , now exploded , words . . . as nathless , caitiff , erst , ken , gov- ernance , & c . " 1 ...
... diction in their own poems . " In order to write like Milton , " it was said , " little more is required than to select certain peculiar , now exploded , words . . . as nathless , caitiff , erst , ken , gov- ernance , & c . " 1 ...
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... diction as entirely beneficial . The strongly Latinic , learned , and grandiloquent vocabulary of his epic , though admirably adapted to Pandemonic councils and the rebellion of archangels , was a dan- gerous model for mediocre bards ...
... diction as entirely beneficial . The strongly Latinic , learned , and grandiloquent vocabulary of his epic , though admirably adapted to Pandemonic councils and the rebellion of archangels , was a dan- gerous model for mediocre bards ...
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... diction , and often copied it , while Keats , a lover of words , appropriated not a few from the epic , the masque , and the monody . The usage of these men may well remind us that in diction , as in all other matters , Milton's example ...
... diction , and often copied it , while Keats , a lover of words , appropriated not a few from the epic , the masque , and the monody . The usage of these men may well remind us that in diction , as in all other matters , Milton's example ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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