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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... CHRIST'S NATIVITY Composed 1629 The theme of this Ode—the triumph of the infant Christ over the gods of paganism— was dear to Christian humanists, Protestant and Catholic alike. Its most mysterious aspect, the silencing of the oracles ...
... CHRIST'S NATIVITY Composed 1629 The theme of this Ode—the triumph of the infant Christ over the gods of paganism— was dear to Christian humanists, Protestant and Catholic alike. Its most mysterious aspect, the silencing of the oracles ...
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... Christian in its movement from the humanistic or stoic conception of virtue in the dialogue of the Lady's brothers to her own realization of the “doctrine of virginity” as a Christian virtue which is finally vindicated by divine grace ...
... Christian in its movement from the humanistic or stoic conception of virtue in the dialogue of the Lady's brothers to her own realization of the “doctrine of virginity” as a Christian virtue which is finally vindicated by divine grace ...
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... Christian poetry alike, but in Lycidas Allen sees their supreme moment of fusion in Christian faith. And by implication he seems to agree with P. E. More's conclusion in “How to Read Lycidas” —AR, VII (1936), 156—when he apologized for ...
... Christian poetry alike, but in Lycidas Allen sees their supreme moment of fusion in Christian faith. And by implication he seems to agree with P. E. More's conclusion in “How to Read Lycidas” —AR, VII (1936), 156—when he apologized for ...
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... Christian Doctrine (De doctrina christiana). Since no one now challenges Professor Maurice Kelley's proof in This Great Argument that the treatise was given its present form almost contemporaneously with the writing of Paradise Lost ...
... Christian Doctrine (De doctrina christiana). Since no one now challenges Professor Maurice Kelley's proof in This Great Argument that the treatise was given its present form almost contemporaneously with the writing of Paradise Lost ...
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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