
Milton and the Art of Rhetoric
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Challenging the conventional view of John Milton as an iconoclast who spoke only to a ''fit audience though few'', Daniel Shore argues that Milton was a far more pragmatic writer than previous scholarship has recognized. Summoning evidence from nearly all of his works - poetry and prose alike - Shore asserts that Milton distanced himself from the prescriptions of classical rhetoric to develop new ...
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Challenging the conventional view of John Milton as an iconoclast who spoke only to a ''fit audience though few'', Daniel Shore argues that Milton was a far more pragmatic writer than previous scholarship has recognized. Summoning evidence from nearly all of his works - poetry and prose alike - Shore asserts that Milton distanced himself from the prescriptions of classical rhetoric to develop new ...
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