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 87
... Nature as she pours “her bounties forth, . . . Covering the earth with odors, fruits, and flocks.” 3. That wonderful speech of Comus has been studied from many angles: from that of the long stream of the tradition of gathering “the rose ...
... Nature as she pours “her bounties forth, . . . Covering the earth with odors, fruits, and flocks.” 3. That wonderful speech of Comus has been studied from many angles: from that of the long stream of the tradition of gathering “the rose ...
Page 89
... nature and grace, derived from the Platonic ideal of Eros”—as Michael Macklem puts it in “Love, Nature, and Grace in Milton” in QQ, LVI (1949), 546. The Lady is no stoic though Comus calls her so. Nor does she have “the stern frigidity ...
... nature and grace, derived from the Platonic ideal of Eros”—as Michael Macklem puts it in “Love, Nature, and Grace in Milton” in QQ, LVI (1949), 546. The Lady is no stoic though Comus calls her so. Nor does she have “the stern frigidity ...
Page 94
... nature hung in Heav'n, and fill'd their Lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely Traveller? This is the place, as well as I may guess, 16o 170 I75 180 185 I90 195 2OO Whence ev'n now the tumult of loud ...
... nature hung in Heav'n, and fill'd their Lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely Traveller? This is the place, as well as I may guess, 16o 170 I75 180 185 I90 195 2OO Whence ev'n now the tumult of loud ...
Page 106
... nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy? But you invert the cov'nants of her trust, And harshly deal like an ill borrower With that which you receiv'd on other terms, Scorning the unexempt condition By which all mortal frailty ...
... nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy? But you invert the cov'nants of her trust, And harshly deal like an ill borrower With that which you receiv'd on other terms, Scorning the unexempt condition By which all mortal frailty ...
Page 107
... Nature's bastards, not her sons, Who would be quite surcharg'd with her own weight, And strang!'d with her waste fertility; Th'earth cumber'd, and the wing'd air dark't with plumes, The herds would over-multitude their Lords, The Sea o ...
... Nature's bastards, not her sons, Who would be quite surcharg'd with her own weight, And strang!'d with her waste fertility; Th'earth cumber'd, and the wing'd air dark't with plumes, The herds would over-multitude their Lords, The Sea o ...
Contents
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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