The Influence of Milton on English Poetry, Volume 1 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 6
... pieces dealing with him in both the second and the eighth year of its existence ( 1732 and 1738 ) , while in the seventeenth ( 1747 ) it gave space to twenty and in the twentieth ( 1750 ) to eleven.1 These figures are unusual , to be ...
... pieces dealing with him in both the second and the eighth year of its existence ( 1732 and 1738 ) , while in the seventeenth ( 1747 ) it gave space to twenty and in the twentieth ( 1750 ) to eleven.1 These figures are unusual , to be ...
Page 9
... pieces , were as whole - hearted in their admiration of the epic as they were unblushing in adopting its phraseology and diction . During the first forty years of the century , when praise was being lavished upon Paradise Lost , the ...
... pieces , were as whole - hearted in their admiration of the epic as they were unblushing in adopting its phraseology and diction . During the first forty years of the century , when praise was being lavished upon Paradise Lost , the ...
Page 10
... piece that he " was never weary of them " ; and Hugh Blair thought them " of all the English Poems in the Descriptive Style , the richest and most re- markable . " It was these pieces that Gray had particularly in mind when he mentioned ...
... piece that he " was never weary of them " ; and Hugh Blair thought them " of all the English Poems in the Descriptive Style , the richest and most re- markable . " It was these pieces that Gray had particularly in mind when he mentioned ...
Page 15
... pieces of John Philips , one of the most ardent admirers of Paradise Lost . 2 See indices to the Bohn editions of his prose and poetry , and that to F. E. Ball's edition of the Correspondence ( 1910–14 ) . Besides these eleven ...
... pieces of John Philips , one of the most ardent admirers of Paradise Lost . 2 See indices to the Bohn editions of his prose and poetry , and that to F. E. Ball's edition of the Correspondence ( 1910–14 ) . Besides these eleven ...
Page 19
... 3 . Lyttelton wrote three pieces in Mil- tonic blank verse and modelled his best poem upon Lycidas ( see Bibl . I , 1728 , 1762 , c . 1763 , and p . 552 below ) . human Things . " Voltaire is the last person from MILTON'S FAME 19.
... 3 . Lyttelton wrote three pieces in Mil- tonic blank verse and modelled his best poem upon Lycidas ( see Bibl . I , 1728 , 1762 , c . 1763 , and p . 552 below ) . human Things . " Voltaire is the last person from MILTON'S FAME 19.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adjectives admired Aeneid Allegro ANON appeared bard beauty blank verse borrowings Coleridge Comus couplet Cowper Crit Critical death Della Cruscans descriptive edition eighteenth century Elizabethan English Poets epic Essay expression Gray Grongar Hill heaven heroic heroic couplet Hill Homer Hymn Hyperion Iliad imitation influence inversions James John Joseph Warton Keats language later Latin letter lines Lycidas lyric meter Milton Miltonic blank verse minor poems Miscellany Monody Muse nature Night Thoughts o'er octosyllabics Odyssey Oxford P. L. ii P. L. vii Paradise Lost passages Penseroso phrases pieces Poetical poetry Pope Pope's popular praise preface prose prosody published quatorzains quoted readers references rime Satan Seasons seems seen song sonnets Southey Spenser stanza sweet thee things Thomas Thomas Warton Thomson thou tion translation unrimed viii Virgil Warton William words Wordsworth writers written wrote