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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Marjorie Hope Nicolson. Lord Strange's Men , later as Derby's Men , a position which his widow inherited for a time . She married as a second husband the Lord Chancellor Egerton , later Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley , founder of ...
Marjorie Hope Nicolson. Lord Strange's Men , later as Derby's Men , a position which his widow inherited for a time . She married as a second husband the Lord Chancellor Egerton , later Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley , founder of ...
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... later and looking back over a period when he himself was just entering his teens . He often kaleidoscoped events ; he is sometimes inaccurate ; and much of his memory of these early days was undoubtedly colored by family gossip and ...
... later and looking back over a period when he himself was just entering his teens . He often kaleidoscoped events ; he is sometimes inaccurate ; and much of his memory of these early days was undoubtedly colored by family gossip and ...
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... later in Paradise Lost . The invocation to a Muse is a classical device , and in later pro- logues , Milton will give his Muse a classical name , Urania , goddess of astronomy , a fitting choice for a poem leading to Heaven . Here ...
... later in Paradise Lost . The invocation to a Muse is a classical device , and in later pro- logues , Milton will give his Muse a classical name , Urania , goddess of astronomy , a fitting choice for a poem leading to Heaven . Here ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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