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Page 148
... classical Greek thought from epic to tragedy is here relevant . The epic , he argues , had posed the question ' how can life become essential ? ' , but as essence becomes divorced from life and becomes . located at a level of being ...
... classical Greek thought from epic to tragedy is here relevant . The epic , he argues , had posed the question ' how can life become essential ? ' , but as essence becomes divorced from life and becomes . located at a level of being ...
Page 149
... classical unities of action , time , and place , to which Milton conforms in Samson Agonistes , clearly spring from the public nature of drama itself , as does the classical chorus , a device which , once again , Milton himself adopts ...
... classical unities of action , time , and place , to which Milton conforms in Samson Agonistes , clearly spring from the public nature of drama itself , as does the classical chorus , a device which , once again , Milton himself adopts ...
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... classical epic as its negation , and , in this respect , it is Samson Agonistes , rather than Paradise Regained , which most closely resembles Paradise Lost precisely because of its relative fidelity to the earlier classical models ...
... classical epic as its negation , and , in this respect , it is Samson Agonistes , rather than Paradise Regained , which most closely resembles Paradise Lost precisely because of its relative fidelity to the earlier classical models ...
Contents
The World Vision of Revolutionary Independency | 50 |
The English Revolutionary Crisis | 60 |
Reason Triumphant | 94 |
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