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Page 138
... defeat of reason within the context of an overall historical schema in which reason is seen as necessarily ultimately triumphant . Each of the last poems has as its central object the problem of defeat , either actual or potential , and ...
... defeat of reason within the context of an overall historical schema in which reason is seen as necessarily ultimately triumphant . Each of the last poems has as its central object the problem of defeat , either actual or potential , and ...
Page 165
... defeat , and the poem would be merely that tragedy which Kermode believes it to be . 95 But Paradise Lost is not a tragedy . On the contrary , it succeeds not only in posing the problem of defeat , the problem of the fall of man , and ...
... defeat , and the poem would be merely that tragedy which Kermode believes it to be . 95 But Paradise Lost is not a tragedy . On the contrary , it succeeds not only in posing the problem of defeat , the problem of the fall of man , and ...
Page 205
... defeat suffered at the Restoration . He is aware , as few commentators are , that each of the last poems has as its central object the problem of defeat , and that this problem was posed for Milton by the defeat of the political cause ...
... defeat suffered at the Restoration . He is aware , as few commentators are , that each of the last poems has as its central object the problem of defeat , and that this problem was posed for Milton by the defeat of the political cause ...
Contents
The World Vision of Revolutionary Independency | 50 |
The English Revolutionary Crisis | 60 |
Reason Triumphant | 94 |
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