Word: miltonian
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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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...