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John Milton 1608–1674: Critical Essay by Keith W. Stavely

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SOURCE: "Sytax and Persuasion," in The Politics of Milton's Prose Style, Yale University Press, 1975, pp. 3-26.

Below, Stavely compares Milton's syntax and style with those of several contemporaneous political polemicists and demonstrates that his selective use of the Ciceronian model of rhetoricunfashionable at the time—aptly facilitated his millennial message.

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