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... Milton encourages rather than seeks to avoid . Satan , like Face in Jonson's The Alchemist , is the most active ... Milton's evocation of chaos is sufficiently powerful to ensure that we identify with the Satan who challenges that chaos ...
... Milton encourages rather than seeks to avoid . Satan , like Face in Jonson's The Alchemist , is the most active ... Milton's evocation of chaos is sufficiently powerful to ensure that we identify with the Satan who challenges that chaos ...
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... Milton produces the first English poem which unifies the length of epic both with epic significance of subject and proper control of it . This is partly a matter of focus . As in the Iliad Homer relates multiple subjects to his central ...
... Milton produces the first English poem which unifies the length of epic both with epic significance of subject and proper control of it . This is partly a matter of focus . As in the Iliad Homer relates multiple subjects to his central ...
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... Milton and the English Revolution ( 1977 ) . ( Brilliantly places Milton in his socio - political context . ) W. Kirkconnell , That Invincible Samson ( Toronto , 1964 ) . ( Sensible reading of Samson Agonistes . ) B. Lewalski , Milton's ...
... Milton and the English Revolution ( 1977 ) . ( Brilliantly places Milton in his socio - political context . ) W. Kirkconnell , That Invincible Samson ( Toronto , 1964 ) . ( Sensible reading of Samson Agonistes . ) B. Lewalski , Milton's ...
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