The Influence of Milton on English Poetry |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 86
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 319
... pieces in blank verse , is better than most poems of the kind ; and , as Woty published a greater number than any one else ( fourteen in all ) , he is entitled to the modest distinction of being , after Philips , the leading writer in ...
... pieces in blank verse , is better than most poems of the kind ; and , as Woty published a greater number than any one else ( fourteen in all ) , he is entitled to the modest distinction of being , after Philips , the leading writer in ...
Page 423
... pieces were not entirely without admirers among less cultivated readers . In 1691 , for example , the Athenian Mercury de- clared the " Poems . . . on Mirth and Melancholly , an Elegy on his Friend that was drown'd , and especially a ...
... pieces were not entirely without admirers among less cultivated readers . In 1691 , for example , the Athenian Mercury de- clared the " Poems . . . on Mirth and Melancholly , an Elegy on his Friend that was drown'd , and especially a ...
Contents
MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
Copyright | |
18 other sections not shown
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 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 Review 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 wings words Wordsworth writers written wrote