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... PARADISE LOST IV . THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PARADISE LOST AND THEIR RELATION TO EIGHTEENTH - CENTURY BLANK VERSE . V. THE INFLUENCE BEFORE THOMSON , 1667-1726 . VI . THOMSON . 75 89 123 VII . YOUNG . 149 VIII . COWPER 16IN IX . WORDSWORTH ...
... PARADISE LOST IV . THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PARADISE LOST AND THEIR RELATION TO EIGHTEENTH - CENTURY BLANK VERSE . V. THE INFLUENCE BEFORE THOMSON , 1667-1726 . VI . THOMSON . 75 89 123 VII . YOUNG . 149 VIII . COWPER 16IN IX . WORDSWORTH ...
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... Paradise Lost . . . I have never read it as a whole , and I doubt whether I have known any other person who has ever done so . " These words carry weight , for their author was a gentleman of fine culture and of unusually wide ...
... Paradise Lost . . . I have never read it as a whole , and I doubt whether I have known any other person who has ever done so . " These words carry weight , for their author was a gentleman of fine culture and of unusually wide ...
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... Paradise Lost was published over a hundred times . The wonder grows when we look at the Faerie Queene , which , we are accustomed to think , had approximately the same number of readers as the epic . If so , they must have borrowed most ...
... Paradise Lost was published over a hundred times . The wonder grows when we look at the Faerie Queene , which , we are accustomed to think , had approximately the same number of readers as the epic . If so , they must have borrowed most ...
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... Paradise Lost had the unique honor of being the first poem to be sold by subscription , the first English poem to appear in a critical edition , the first to have a variorum edition , and the first to be made the subject of a detailed ...
... Paradise Lost had the unique honor of being the first poem to be sold by subscription , the first English poem to appear in a critical edition , the first to have a variorum edition , and the first to be made the subject of a detailed ...
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... Paradise Lost , a work which he too thought " the finest poem in the world " and the author of which he referred to as " this greatest of men , your idol and mine . " 4 This exaggerated estimate was by no means so rare in the " age of ...
... Paradise Lost , a work which he too thought " the finest poem in the world " and the author of which he referred to as " this greatest of men , your idol and mine . " 4 This exaggerated estimate was by no means so rare in the " age of ...
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