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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Page 17
Echion was one of the heroes who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus, whose son Pentheus was slain by the followers of Bacchus in Euripides' Bacchanals. 69. Cf. eldest Night in PL II, 894. Milton imagined her as Virgil ...
Echion was one of the heroes who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus, whose son Pentheus was slain by the followers of Bacchus in Euripides' Bacchanals. 69. Cf. eldest Night in PL II, 894. Milton imagined her as Virgil ...
Page 26
The Colchian is Medea, whose flight in a dragon-drawn chariot after her murder of her children in the palace of her husband Jason, was familiar to Milton in Euripides' Medea and Ovid's tragic retelling of the tale (Heroides VI, 129–38).
The Colchian is Medea, whose flight in a dragon-drawn chariot after her murder of her children in the palace of her husband Jason, was familiar to Milton in Euripides' Medea and Ovid's tragic retelling of the tale (Heroides VI, 129–38).
Page 74
Tragedy suggests dramas like Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes, plays about Pelops' descendants Agamemnon, Orestes, Iphigenia, and Electra, and Trojan plays like Euripides' Trojan Dames, Andromache, and Hecuba. 104.
Tragedy suggests dramas like Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes, plays about Pelops' descendants Agamemnon, Orestes, Iphigenia, and Electra, and Trojan plays like Euripides' Trojan Dames, Andromache, and Hecuba. 104.
Page 88
Such drama tried to assimilate Greek elements like the prologue-soliloquy and the swift exchange of alternate speeches of single lines in dialogue (stichomythia), which in Comus are usually traced to plays like Euripides' Bacchae and ...
Such drama tried to assimilate Greek elements like the prologue-soliloquy and the swift exchange of alternate speeches of single lines in dialogue (stichomythia), which in Comus are usually traced to plays like Euripides' Bacchae and ...
Page 92
Cf. Euripides' sun god “sitting exalted in a golden chariot and dividing his path through the heavens” (Phoenecian Damsels, 1–2) to cool his glowing wheels in the western ocean at night, and Ovid's picture of the chariot of Phoebus (Met ...
Cf. Euripides' sun god “sitting exalted in a golden chariot and dividing his path through the heavens” (Phoenecian Damsels, 1–2) to cool his glowing wheels in the western ocean at night, and Ovid's picture of the chariot of Phoebus (Met ...
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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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