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... Elizabethans , but about most of this earlier verse his readers knew little and cared less . What struck them as particularly different from their own work was the daring wildness of the epic . It was " read by all sorts of people ...
... Elizabethans , but about most of this earlier verse his readers knew little and cared less . What struck them as particularly different from their own work was the daring wildness of the epic . It was " read by all sorts of people ...
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... Elizabethans had dropped so completely not only from poetry but from all other usage that their meaning was no longer understood . No criticism of Spenser and Milton was so often made as that of employing unusual and obsolete words , 1 ...
... Elizabethans had dropped so completely not only from poetry but from all other usage that their meaning was no longer understood . No criticism of Spenser and Milton was so often made as that of employing unusual and obsolete words , 1 ...
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... Elizabethans , Milton had ac- quired an unusual vocabulary , which shows itself even in his prose works . In Paradise Lost he naturally made frequent use of still other unfamiliar words to describe the exceptional persons and places ...
... Elizabethans , Milton had ac- quired an unusual vocabulary , which shows itself even in his prose works . In Paradise Lost he naturally made frequent use of still other unfamiliar words to describe the exceptional persons and places ...
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... Elizabethans . Peculiarities of Paradise Lost that seem to be due to its prosody will , when examined more closely , be seen to lie in other categories . True , Milton's verse is in general less flowing , less conversational , and more ...
... Elizabethans . Peculiarities of Paradise Lost that seem to be due to its prosody will , when examined more closely , be seen to lie in other categories . True , Milton's verse is in general less flowing , less conversational , and more ...
Page 87
... Elizabethans , fantastic con- ceits from Donne , a new Canterbury tale , a medieval debate or romance . Instead , we have poems usually more romantic in subject and treatment than those of the Augustans , but still following the 1 See ...
... Elizabethans , fantastic con- ceits from Donne , a new Canterbury tale , a medieval debate or romance . Instead , we have poems usually more romantic in subject and treatment than those of the Augustans , but still following the 1 See ...
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