An eight-line Emily Dickinson poem can stand beside a Miltonian epic and not look small, except in word count. |
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In truth his only satanic feature was his pride, which was admittedly of Miltonian proportions. |
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And L'Engle invests the science-fiction novel's witch-angels, Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which, with a disarming battiness that metamorphoses into Miltonian grandeur when the story calls for it. |
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And McDowell has been at international conferences where Miltonian scholars from the US have drawn parallels between the attack on the Twin Towers and the pulling down of the temple pillars in his poem Samson Agonistes. |
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When I'm writing about the mind or the heart I use a Shakespearean or a Miltonian form, a more entangled version, because that's more how the mind feels to me. |
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