The Influence of Milton on English Poetry |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 81
Page 10
... perhaps the most captivating pieces of the descriptive kind that all poetry affords " ; while Christopher Smart , in speaking of Dryden's and Pope's odes for St. Cecilia's day , threw all " perhaps's " to the winds and affirmed ...
... perhaps the most captivating pieces of the descriptive kind that all poetry affords " ; while Christopher Smart , in speaking of Dryden's and Pope's odes for St. Cecilia's day , threw all " perhaps's " to the winds and affirmed ...
Page 213
... perhaps not even the main , purpose of the revision . Keats may well have had several objects in view . He certainly wished to bring out the alle- gory or " meaning , " and to express his ideas about the functions of a poet as he was ...
... perhaps not even the main , purpose of the revision . Keats may well have had several objects in view . He certainly wished to bring out the alle- gory or " meaning , " and to express his ideas about the functions of a poet as he was ...
Page 281
... perhaps more frequently than any other composition , and always with renewed pleasure ... perhaps , chiefly owing to the subject . ” 4 They " fell plumb into the water of oblivion , " declares Dowden ( Life of Southey , 1879 , p . 51 ) ...
... perhaps more frequently than any other composition , and always with renewed pleasure ... perhaps , chiefly owing to the subject . ” 4 They " fell plumb into the water of oblivion , " declares Dowden ( Life of Southey , 1879 , p . 51 ) ...
Contents
MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
Copyright | |
26 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admired Aeneid Allegro ANON appeared bard beauty blank verse borrowings Bowles Coleridge Comus couplets Cowper Crit Critical death Della Cruscans descriptive diction Dunciad Edin edition eighteenth century Elizabethan English Poets epic Essay Gray Grongar Hill heaven heroic heroic couplets hill Homer Hymn Iliad imitation of Milton's influence Italian JAMES JOHN Joseph Warton Keats language later letter Lofft's Laura Lycidas lyric melancholy meter Milton minor poems Miscellany Miss Seward Monody Muse nature o'er octosyllabics Odyssey Oxford P. L. ii P. L. vii Paradise Lost passages pauses Penseroso Petrarchan phrases pieces Poetical poetry Pope Pope's popular praise preface prose prosody published quatorzains quoted rime rime-scheme Samson seems seen song Southey Spenser stanza style sweet thee Thomas Thomas Warton Thomson thou tion trans translation unrimed viii volume Warton WILLIAM wings words Wordsworth writers written wrote