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Essay On John Milton: John Milton - Part IV.

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Bagehot, Walter

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John Milton - Part IV.

These are the two contrasts which puzzle us at first in Milton, and which distinguish him from other poets in our remembrance afterwards. We have a superficial complexity in illustration and imagery and metaphor; and in contrast with it we observe a latent simplicity of idea, an almost rude strength of conception. The underlying thoughts are few, though the flowers on the surface are so many. We have likewise the perpetual contrast of the soft poetry of the memory, and the firm - as it were, fused - and glowing poetry of the imagination. His ...

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