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The Miltonic Quality of Brackenridge's Poem on Divine Revelation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Thomas P. Haviland
Thomas P. Haviland*
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
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Comment and Criticism
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PMLA , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , June 1941 , pp. 588 - 592
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1941

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References

Note 1 in page 588 Bradford Papers, Oct. 17, 1774, p. 25.

Note 2 in page 588 Poem on Divine Revelation, Phila., 1774.

Note 3 in page 588 Princeton, 1932, pp. 27–33.

Note 4 in page 588 “The Influence of Milton on Colonial American Poetry” in Huntington Library Bulletin, No. 9, p. 80.

Note 5 in page 588 Ibid., p. 80.

Note 6 in page 588 Poem on Divine Revelation, p. 6. (The lines are unnumbered.)

Note 7 in page 589 Divine Revelation, p. 4.

Note 8 in page 589 Paradise Lost, i, 684; “vision beatific.”

Note 9 in page 589 Ibid., i, 369–70.

... th' invisible
Glory of him that made them ...

Note 10 in page 590 Divine Revelation, p. 3.

Note 11 in page 590 Paradise Lost, i, 410.

Note 12 in page 590 Paradise Lost, ii, 904. “Cyrene's torrid soil.”

Note 13 in page 590 Op. cit.

Note 14 in page 590 Compare Paradise Lost, i, 392:

... Moloch, horrid King besmear'd with blood
Of human sacrifice, ...

Note 15 in page 591 Divine Revelation, p. 12.

Note 16 in page 591 Ibid., p. 14.

Note 17 in page 591 Nativity Ode, ll. 66–68.

Note 18 in page 591 Ibid., ll. 136–142.

Note 19 in page 591 Divine Revelation, p. 21. (Cp. also, “At a Solemn Music,” 1. 28, “To live with him, and sing in endless morn of light.”

Note 20 in page 592 Divine Revelation, p. 21.