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... poet , Milton tends to be more classical and European than his English contemporaries ; even as a young poet , he also seems more serious and ambitious . With his confidence and pa- triotism , he shares in none of the pessimism found in ...
... poet , Milton tends to be more classical and European than his English contemporaries ; even as a young poet , he also seems more serious and ambitious . With his confidence and pa- triotism , he shares in none of the pessimism found in ...
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... poet - shepherd and by Spenser in The Shepheardes Calendar to a Protestant pastor ) and represent himself as a shepherd - singer . Clearly the poet's own troubled thought is at the heart of the poem's three - part struc- ture , which ...
... poet - shepherd and by Spenser in The Shepheardes Calendar to a Protestant pastor ) and represent himself as a shepherd - singer . Clearly the poet's own troubled thought is at the heart of the poem's three - part struc- ture , which ...
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... poet is aware of his unique and ambitious undertaking is clear : he states that his poem will soar in high style ( “ no mid- dle flight " ) since it deals with what no poet has yet attempted . This is not a boast but a fact . As a ...
... poet is aware of his unique and ambitious undertaking is clear : he states that his poem will soar in high style ( “ no mid- dle flight " ) since it deals with what no poet has yet attempted . This is not a boast but a fact . As a ...
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