A Reader's Guide to John MiltonMarjorie Nicolson—one of the foremost authorities on Milton—examines Milton's work, beginning with the famous Minor Poems, "L'Allegro," "II Penseroso," "Comus" (and "Arcades"), and "Lycides." She explores Milton's middle years, when he was diverted from poetry to become Latin Secretary under Oliver Cromwell. Finally, she looks at the great poems, including a book-by-book analysis of Paradise Lost and a careful reading of Milton's poetic "closet drama," Samson Agonistes. |
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... human food . ( V. 401-402 ) But her fears are at once over when she learns that angels not only can eat human food but enjoy it . Milton's school of angelology makes his angels much more at- tractive to us , as well as to Adam and Eve ...
... human food . ( V. 401-402 ) But her fears are at once over when she learns that angels not only can eat human food but enjoy it . Milton's school of angelology makes his angels much more at- tractive to us , as well as to Adam and Eve ...
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... human quarrel . Milton had written in Areopagitica : " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue , unexercised and unbreathed . " The virtue of Adam and Eve be- fore the Fall had been fugitive and cloistered . Now they have be ...
... human quarrel . Milton had written in Areopagitica : " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue , unexercised and unbreathed . " The virtue of Adam and Eve be- fore the Fall had been fugitive and cloistered . Now they have be ...
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... human being on a par with ourselves , subject to the frailties familiar to us . Tem- perate though he may have been in all appetites except the sexual , he differs from other human beings only in his gigantic size and strength . Those ...
... human being on a par with ourselves , subject to the frailties familiar to us . Tem- perate though he may have been in all appetites except the sexual , he differs from other human beings only in his gigantic size and strength . Those ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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