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... The writers of literary epics would agree with Dryden's statement of the purpose of the heroic poem : " to form the mind to heroic vir- tue by example . " The epic had become didactic " My Advent'rous Song " : Paradise Lost 69.
... The writers of literary epics would agree with Dryden's statement of the purpose of the heroic poem : " to form the mind to heroic vir- tue by example . " The epic had become didactic " My Advent'rous Song " : Paradise Lost 69.
Page 103
... mind is its own place , and in itself / Can make a Heav'n of Hell , a Hell of Heav'n " ( 1.255 ) . He now knows that he cannot turn Hell into Heaven by wishful thinking , but he has been able to convert part of Heaven into Hell by the ...
... mind is its own place , and in itself / Can make a Heav'n of Hell , a Hell of Heav'n " ( 1.255 ) . He now knows that he cannot turn Hell into Heaven by wishful thinking , but he has been able to convert part of Heaven into Hell by the ...
Page 176
... Mind : Tercentenary Essays on " Paradise Regained " and " Samson Agonistes " in Honor of John S. Diekhoff , ed . Joseph An- thony Wittreich , Jr. ( Cleveland : Case Western Reserve University Press , 1971 ) , p . 69 . 4. Barbara K ...
... Mind : Tercentenary Essays on " Paradise Regained " and " Samson Agonistes " in Honor of John S. Diekhoff , ed . Joseph An- thony Wittreich , Jr. ( Cleveland : Case Western Reserve University Press , 1971 ) , p . 69 . 4. Barbara K ...
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