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... lines preceding Milton's simile : “ aires , vernal aires , / Breathing the smell of field and grove , attune / The trembling leaves . " " Aires " and " attune " connote harmonies of sound and motion along with pleasing smell and ...
... lines preceding Milton's simile : “ aires , vernal aires , / Breathing the smell of field and grove , attune / The trembling leaves . " " Aires " and " attune " connote harmonies of sound and motion along with pleasing smell and ...
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... lines . Part of what Ovid foregrounds as constitutive of his new , transforming epic , Milton , in turn , imitates and transforms to reflect his values as a Christian poet . Thus Milton uses a similar epic simile to charac- terize the ...
... lines . Part of what Ovid foregrounds as constitutive of his new , transforming epic , Milton , in turn , imitates and transforms to reflect his values as a Christian poet . Thus Milton uses a similar epic simile to charac- terize the ...
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... lines of Paradise Lost in Milton's expansive , Latinate syntax . In a headnote on " The Verse " appended to the second edition , Milton named “ Homer in Greek , and Virgil in Latin " as authorities for heroic verse without rhyme . " [ T ] ...
... lines of Paradise Lost in Milton's expansive , Latinate syntax . In a headnote on " The Verse " appended to the second edition , Milton named “ Homer in Greek , and Virgil in Latin " as authorities for heroic verse without rhyme . " [ T ] ...
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