Word: miltonian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months our time has been occupied by composing the Class Poem, Oration and Ode. While these trifling effluvia of course required no deep concentration or constructive thought, yet we found that there was a certain fascination in this game of clothing Mother Goose rhymes with flowing garments of Miltonian or Homeric majesty. Especially were we pleased with our results in the case of the Ode, the original of which we chanced upon in an old book called 'Seaside and Wayside, or How Jimmy Warthog Got Ilis Spots.' By the simple expedient of taking three paragraphs of this little work...
There is an almost Miltonian strength to the book though in depth of perception and vigour of treatment it is perhaps best to be compared to the contemporary poet, Robinson Jeffers. Like Jeffers, Morrison comes to terms with the modern environment. He neither apologizes to the Great God Machine for his place as a poet in the world of science nor does he treat the modern telephone and automobile and cigarette as essentially unpoetic. They merely exist as parts of the setting for his human drama...