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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Laws – Plato, Laws Met. – Ovid, Metamorphoses Milieu – George W. Whiting, Milton's Literary Milieu (1939) M.P.L.C. - John Arthos, On a Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle (1954) M.R.R.— Harris Fletcher, Milton's Rabbinical Readings (1930) ...
Laws – Plato, Laws Met. – Ovid, Metamorphoses Milieu – George W. Whiting, Milton's Literary Milieu (1939) M.P.L.C. - John Arthos, On a Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle (1954) M.R.R.— Harris Fletcher, Milton's Rabbinical Readings (1930) ...
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Plato, Republic Royalism — Malcolm M. Ross, Milton's Royalism: A Study of the Conflict of Symbol and Idea in the Poems (1943) Sat. – Juvenal, Satires S.C.S.H.G. – Seventeenth Century Studies Presented to Sir Herbert Grierson (1938) ...
Plato, Republic Royalism — Malcolm M. Ross, Milton's Royalism: A Study of the Conflict of Symbol and Idea in the Poems (1943) Sat. – Juvenal, Satires S.C.S.H.G. – Seventeenth Century Studies Presented to Sir Herbert Grierson (1938) ...
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Cliniades is Alcibiades, who, in Plato's Alcibiades (120d) boasts of his descent from Eurysaces, the grandson of Telamon. 25. The Stagirite is Aristotle, who was the tutor and life-long friend of Alexander the Great. 26.
Cliniades is Alcibiades, who, in Plato's Alcibiades (120d) boasts of his descent from Eurysaces, the grandson of Telamon. 25. The Stagirite is Aristotle, who was the tutor and life-long friend of Alexander the Great. 26.
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The planets are watchful fires because Plato said that, “by the design of God . . . the planets came into existence for determining and watching over the numbers of time” (Tim., 38c). 48. Milton thought of Homer's story of Ulysses' ...
The planets are watchful fires because Plato said that, “by the design of God . . . the planets came into existence for determining and watching over the numbers of time” (Tim., 38c). 48. Milton thought of Homer's story of Ulysses' ...
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... Prolusion in its ironical treatment of Aristotle, “the envious and perpetual calumniator of Pythagoras and Plato. ... by a disciple who naïvely admires its criticism of Plato's theory of an archetypal man made in a divine image.
... Prolusion in its ironical treatment of Aristotle, “the envious and perpetual calumniator of Pythagoras and Plato. ... by a disciple who naïvely admires its criticism of Plato's theory of an archetypal man made in a divine image.
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Contents
| 3 | |
Paradise Lost | 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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