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Article: Milton's heroical sonnets. (John Milton)
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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Scholars agree that Milton's sonnets to Fairfax, Cromwell, and Vane have so many features in common that they can easily be thought of as forming a special group. The question of what distinguishes that group, however, produces no such consensus. J. S. Smart singles them out as having been modeled on those poems of Torquato Tasso called "Heroical Sonnets."(1) But Tasso wrote almost five hundred of them, and Smart does not establish connections between individual poems.(2) Anna K. Nardo groups the sonnets to Fairfax, Cromwell, and Vane together with the one that usually follows them, namely, the sonnet about the Waldensian massacre, as poems concerned with public policy.(3) ...
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