The Complete Poems and Major ProseFirst published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume. |
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Virgil, Aeneid Anatomy – Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (Everyman Ed.) Angels – Robert H. West, Milton and the Angels (1955) Antiquities — Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews Argument-Maurice Kelley, This Great Argument (1941) ...
Virgil, Aeneid Anatomy – Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (Everyman Ed.) Angels – Robert H. West, Milton and the Angels (1955) Antiquities — Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews Argument-Maurice Kelley, This Great Argument (1941) ...
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Cybele appears in the Aeneid (X, 252–3) wearing a turreted crown because she first taught men to build fortified cities, and again (VI. 789) as the mother of a hundred gods. 23. Even the queen of the gods, Juno, dares not ARCADES 77 ...
Cybele appears in the Aeneid (X, 252–3) wearing a turreted crown because she first taught men to build fortified cities, and again (VI. 789) as the mother of a hundred gods. 23. Even the queen of the gods, Juno, dares not ARCADES 77 ...
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It begins as the Iliad and the Aeneid begin, with a plunge into the action at a point where it has reached its third crisis, the time when the devils after the decision to revolt in Heaven and their defeat in battle there, debate their ...
It begins as the Iliad and the Aeneid begin, with a plunge into the action at a point where it has reached its third crisis, the time when the devils after the decision to revolt in Heaven and their defeat in battle there, debate their ...
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Between Milton's Hell and Dante's local one in the bowels of the earth there are many differences, yet they both have traces of the geography of Virgil's Hades in the Aeneid, and there are moments when the “fiery Deluge” that scorches ...
Between Milton's Hell and Dante's local one in the bowels of the earth there are many differences, yet they both have traces of the geography of Virgil's Hades in the Aeneid, and there are moments when the “fiery Deluge” that scorches ...
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Contents
| 3 | |
| 173 | |
Paradise Regained | 471 |
Samson Agonistes | 531 |
Prose | 595 |
Appendix | 1021 |
Index of Names | 1045 |
BACK COVER | 1060 |
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Adam Aeneid ancient angels Areopagitica Aristotle Beast behold bishops Book called Chorus Christ Christian church Comus dark death delight divine doctrine doth E. M. W. Tillyard Earth Euripides evil eyes faith Father fear fire glory God's goddess gods grace Greek hand happy hast hath heart Heav'n heavenly Hell Hesiod holy honor human John John Milton Jove King Latin meaning learned less light live Lord Lycidas marriage Milton mind Muses nature night Ovid Ovid's Paradise Lost Paradise Regained peace perhaps Philistines Plato poem poet praise prelates Psalm Roman Samson Agonistes Satan says Serpent song SONNET soul spake spirit stars stood story sweet thee things thir thou thought Throne tion tradition translation Tree truth verse VIII virtue wings wisdom words Zeus
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Complete Poems and Major Prose Hackett Classics |
| Author | John Milton |
| Editor | Merritt Y. Hughes |
| Publisher | Hackett Publishing, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1624665853, 9781624665851 |
| Length | 1088 pages |
| Subjects | › › Poetry / Epic Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Poetry / European / General |
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