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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he cried, “how much more satisfactory it was to receive my tenant's offerings with a grateful heart, small though they were! If only I might bridle my cupidity and my voracious gullet! Now both the fruit and the parent tree are lost to ...
he cried, “how much more satisfactory it was to receive my tenant's offerings with a grateful heart, small though they were! If only I might bridle my cupidity and my voracious gullet! Now both the fruit and the parent tree are lost to ...
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“But take heart and do not let your anxious hope yield to your embarrassments nor pale fear strike palsy to your bones. Even though you are beset by flashing arms and though a thousand shafts threaten you with death, your unarmed breast ...
“But take heart and do not let your anxious hope yield to your embarrassments nor pale fear strike palsy to your bones. Even though you are beset by flashing arms and though a thousand shafts threaten you with death, your unarmed breast ...
Page 52
His hidden heart and his lips alike breathe out Jove. But if you will know what I am doing (if only you think it of any importance to know whether I am doing anything)—I am singing the heaven-descended King, the bringer of peace, ...
His hidden heart and his lips alike breathe out Jove. But if you will know what I am doing (if only you think it of any importance to know whether I am doing anything)—I am singing the heaven-descended King, the bringer of peace, ...
Page 54
Grace from above alone can avail him to prevent the desire of a lover from becoming fixed immovably in his heart. IO glances with the weapons of Cupid, whose darts—as Spenser declared in Amoretti VIII, 6—may serve “to base affections ...
Grace from above alone can avail him to prevent the desire of a lover from becoming fixed immovably in his heart. IO glances with the weapons of Cupid, whose darts—as Spenser declared in Amoretti VIII, 6—may serve “to base affections ...
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My lady, commiato, in which the poet often addressed his whose words are my very heart, poem as Milton does here, and as Spenser did in says, “This is the language of which the last stanza of his Epithalamion. Spenser's i.
My lady, commiato, in which the poet often addressed his whose words are my very heart, poem as Milton does here, and as Spenser did in says, “This is the language of which the last stanza of his Epithalamion. Spenser's i.
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User Review - jsburbidge - LibraryThingThis is pretty well the standard edition of Milton, with a critically established text, a reasonable level of apparatus for non-expert readers, and a critical mass of Milton's work extending beyond his major works to everything that anyone who is not a specialist is likely to need. Read full review
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User Review - selfcallednowhere - LibraryThingOk, so I didn't read this whole thing, obviously. But I did read "Paradise Lost" and that's the important thing, right? And I actually ended up enjoying it a lot more than I expected to. The language ... Read full review
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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