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Evan Thomas, Milton Group8, Milton Group7, Milton Group6, Milton Group5, Milton Group4, Milton Group3, Milton Group2, Milton Group1, Milton Group9, Authors

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Goddess-like

Milton’s allusions continually acknowledge structural and verbal debts to the great classical models for epic or epic-like poems–Homer,Virgil,Hesiod,Ovid, Lucan, Lucretius–and to such moderns as Ariosto, Tasso, Du Bartas, Camöens and Spenser.

Barbara K. Lewalski. (2010). Milton: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes. In: Michael O'Neill (ed.) The Cambridge History of English Poetry. pp. 255-280. [Online]. The Cambridge History of English Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available from: Cambridge Histories Online < http://dx.doi.org.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/10.1017/CHOL9780521883061.016> [Accessed 23 October 2014].
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