...the great John Milton: Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee .. ... We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us...apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: ... Box 9.2 The following are some of the tributes paid to Saha on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday...

...revolutionary epic poet: Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee . . . We are selfish men: Oh Raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power If I have commented on these novels briefly it is with a view to underlining the shift of perspective...

...she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; O raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power! Thy soul was like a...

...is described as Wordsworth sees himself here: Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadsi a voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. . . . The prayer then is to be an influence, and not to be influenced, and the precursor is praised...

...Let us place the transcendent Emerson where he, himself places Milton,1 in Wordsworth's apostrophe: "Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, so didst...travel on life's common way in cheerful Godliness." The Godliness of spiritual courage and hopefulness— these fathers of faith rise to a glorified peace...

...she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward...free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In chearful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest dudes on itself did lay. 'Nuns fret not at their...

...'London, 1 802', which, in invoking the name of Milton, deplores England's moral and political decline: 'Oh! raise us up, return to us again; | And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power', 6-8: see the headnote to No. 40, 'To Milton'. In the early fragments of 'Theoretikos' (see Mason 293),...

...is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward...again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. (172) 27 The sonnet's political possibilities run through the English poetic tradition as a sometimes...

...is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward...apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: 10 Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful...

...side without realising it. Wordsworth in his sonnet on Milton praises his versification: "Thou hast a voice whose sound was like the sea; / Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free". In the Twentieth Century FRLeavis attacked Milton's "impoverishment" of the English language; CSLewis...