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 15
... poems like Milton's and the longer and even more bitterly anti-papal Locustae and Apolyonists of Phineas Fletcher (1627). In such poems an inevitable feature was the formal conspiracy of the devils in hell as the beginning of the plot ...
... poems like Milton's and the longer and even more bitterly anti-papal Locustae and Apolyonists of Phineas Fletcher (1627). In such poems an inevitable feature was the formal conspiracy of the devils in hell as the beginning of the plot ...
Page 30
... poem. Milton took advantage of an invitation to be the “Father” of a group of students in this traditional gay ceremony at the beginning of the long vacation in July, 1628. After avenging himself on the men who were responsible for his ...
... poem. Milton took advantage of an invitation to be the “Father” of a group of students in this traditional gay ceremony at the beginning of the long vacation in July, 1628. After avenging himself on the men who were responsible for his ...
Page 35
... poem of the Renaissance was essentially a love song.” The stanza of this poem is that of the induction to Nativity, and the two poems both indulge in several conceits— facts which encourage the suspicion that they were written less than ...
... poem of the Renaissance was essentially a love song.” The stanza of this poem is that of the induction to Nativity, and the two poems both indulge in several conceits— facts which encourage the suspicion that they were written less than ...
Page 37
... poem with Buchanan's Majae Calendae (The First of May), and Mario Praz (in Seventeenth Century Studies in Honor of Sir Herbert Grierson, p. 200) regards ll. 115-130 as “the best commentary on Poussin's 'Bacchanalian Dance'”! The spirit ...
... poem with Buchanan's Majae Calendae (The First of May), and Mario Praz (in Seventeenth Century Studies in Honor of Sir Herbert Grierson, p. 200) regards ll. 115-130 as “the best commentary on Poussin's 'Bacchanalian Dance'”! The spirit ...
Page 42
... poetic continuity” of which M. M. Ross accuses the Ode in Poetry and Dogma (New Brunswick, 1954), p. 191. The charge of discontinuity really roots into the theological objection that “the Person of Christ” is subordinated to “a series ...
... poetic continuity” of which M. M. Ross accuses the Ode in Poetry and Dogma (New Brunswick, 1954), p. 191. The charge of discontinuity really roots into the theological objection that “the Person of Christ” is subordinated to “a series ...
Contents
3 | |
173 | |
Paradise Regained | 471 |
Samson Agonistes | 531 |
Prose | 595 |
Appendix | 1021 |
Index of Names | 1045 |
BACK COVER | 1060 |
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