Robert Bridges' Theory of Elision - Milton's Elision in Paradise Lost

Milton's Elision in Paradise Lost

Bridges identifies the following kinds of elision:

  1. vowel elisions
  2. elision through H
  3. poetic elision of semi-vowels
  4. elision through R
  5. elision through L
  6. elision through N

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