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Steven Blakemore. “Milton's Samson Agonistes, lines 80‐82.”Explicator 42.3 (1984): 17‐18.Margaret M. Byard. “Milton's ‘On Time’ and ‘At a Solemn Musick.'”Explicator 41.4 (1983): 13‐14.Robert E. Jungman. “Milton's Lycidas, line 114.”Explicator 41.1 (1983): 11‐12.The phrase “for their bellies’ sake” most likely comes from Philippians 3:18‐19. Milton, as did Jerome and Tertullian, used the phrase to condemn Christ's enemies.Bei‐Yei Loh. “A Note on Milton's On Shakespeare.”N6Q 228 (1983): 431.Leo Miller. “The Date of Christoph Arnold's Letter.”N&Q 229 (1984): 323‐24.F. Peczenik. “Fit Help: The Egalitarian Marriage in Paradise Lost.“Mosaic 17.1 (1984): 29‐48.Mary Ann Radzinowicz. “Paradise Regained as Her‐meneutic Combat.”University of Hartford Studies in Literature 15.3 (1983)‐16.1 (1984): 99‐107.Malabika Sarkar. “The Quest for Paradise:Kay Stanton. “From Jove’ To Task‐Master': The Transformation From Pagan to Christian Deity in Milton's Sonnets 1‐7.”University of Hartford Studies in Literature 15.3 (1983)‐16.1 (1984): 67‐77.Milton's first seven sonnets are interconnnected thematically by the pagan and Christian deities mentioned at each end of the group. The appearance of these two deities also explains Milton's use of two different languages in these poems. In effect, the first seven sonnets form a unified group that all attempt to gain divine approval through poetry.Kay Gilliland Stevenson. ‘“No More… No End': Paradise Lost IX.”Renaissance Papers 1983 (1984): 103‐109.The first words of Book IX are “No more,” and the last words are “no end.” Within this frame, the book is highly unified, a tragedy in five acts, but one looks in vain for the kind of epic heroism defined in the book's prologue. The framing words reappear in Eve's soliloquy after she eats the fruit, a soliloquy important for defining what has been tragically changed. The words “no end” in the final lines of the book are dreary or ironic in their meaning “to no purpose,” but as “no finis” they become optimistic, opening the way for “the better fortitude/ Of patience and heroic martyrdom” in Books X‐XII.William L. Stull. “Sonnets Courtly and Christian.”University of Hartford Studies in Literature 15.3 (1983)‐16.1 (1984): 1‐15.Herbert, Donne and Milton found a sanctification of poetic form that gave religious literature an advantage over the secular, courtly sonnet. Milton states his faith in the power of religious poetry in The Reason of Church Government and in PR IV. 334‐38 and 343‐47.Alinda Sumers‐Ingraham. “Milton's Umpire Conscience,’ the Two‐Handed Engine,’ and the English Protestant Tradition of the Divine Similitude.” Paper Presented at the Le Moyne Forum (1983).