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 26
... faith and well instructed how to feed the sheep that love Christ. Truly, that man is more than the other half of my soul” and without him I am compelled to live a life which is but the half of itself. Alas for me—how many seas and ...
... faith and well instructed how to feed the sheep that love Christ. Truly, that man is more than the other half of my soul” and without him I am compelled to live a life which is but the half of itself. Alas for me—how many seas and ...
Page 34
... faith and with their accustomed uproar the lightning-bolts strike and shatter the rocks. Corus” goes raging with no gentler voice through the void and the ferocious Aquilo” torments the armed Scythians with undiminished chill as he ...
... faith and with their accustomed uproar the lightning-bolts strike and shatter the rocks. Corus” goes raging with no gentler voice through the void and the ferocious Aquilo” torments the armed Scythians with undiminished chill as he ...
Page 88
... faith in “the magic power of chastity,” which Denis Saurat attributed to him in 1929, in Milton: Man and Thinker (p. 9). Yet in 1939 Paul Phelps-Morand still regarded Milton's faith in “magical chastity” as reducing “the drama almost to ...
... faith in “the magic power of chastity,” which Denis Saurat attributed to him in 1929, in Milton: Man and Thinker (p. 9). Yet in 1939 Paul Phelps-Morand still regarded Milton's faith in “magical chastity” as reducing “the drama almost to ...
Page 92
... faith, And in this office of his Mountain watch Likeliest, and nearest to the present aid 90 Of this occasion. But I hear the tread Of hateful steps, I must be viewless now. Comus enters with a Charming Rod in one hand, his Glass in the ...
... faith, And in this office of his Mountain watch Likeliest, and nearest to the present aid 90 Of this occasion. But I hear the tread Of hateful steps, I must be viewless now. Comus enters with a Charming Rod in one hand, his Glass in the ...
Page 118
... faith in poetry. Now the way is open to read the last of the three main movements of the poem, the deifi. cation of Lycidas, as a climax naturally climaxing the two preceding movements. Indeed, it may be open—as David Daiches declares ...
... faith in poetry. Now the way is open to read the last of the three main movements of the poem, the deifi. cation of Lycidas, as a climax naturally climaxing the two preceding movements. Indeed, it may be open—as David Daiches declares ...
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