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 xvii
... Paradise Lost” in World Literature (1952) Dictionaries – DeWitt T. Starnes and Ernest W. Talbert, Classical Myth and Legend in Renaissance Dictionaries (1955) Dilemma – Arthur Barker, Milton and the Puritan Dilemma (1942) Diodatis ...
... Paradise Lost” in World Literature (1952) Dictionaries – DeWitt T. Starnes and Ernest W. Talbert, Classical Myth and Legend in Renaissance Dictionaries (1955) Dilemma – Arthur Barker, Milton and the Puritan Dilemma (1942) Diodatis ...
Page xviii
... Paradise Lost” (1942) Prom. – Aeschylus, Prometheus Purg. – Dante, Purgatorio Read-Studies for William A. Read, ed. by Nathaniel M. Caffee (1940) Reader – B. Rajan, “Paradise Lost” and the Seventeenth Century Reader (1947) Relation ...
... Paradise Lost” (1942) Prom. – Aeschylus, Prometheus Purg. – Dante, Purgatorio Read-Studies for William A. Read, ed. by Nathaniel M. Caffee (1940) Reader – B. Rajan, “Paradise Lost” and the Seventeenth Century Reader (1947) Relation ...
Page 173
John Milton Merritt Y. Hughes. Paradise. Lost. INTRODUCTION Epic or Drama? 1. A reader coming to Paradise Lost for the first time, and going rapidly through it to the end of Book X, is likely to get the impression that he is reading drama ...
John Milton Merritt Y. Hughes. Paradise. Lost. INTRODUCTION Epic or Drama? 1. A reader coming to Paradise Lost for the first time, and going rapidly through it to the end of Book X, is likely to get the impression that he is reading drama ...
Page 174
... Dutchman whose claim to have influenced him can hardly be proved, the Lucifer of Joost van den Vondel. Milton must have heard about and perhaps seen performances of sacred plays like Andreini's L'Adamo in Italy, and 174 PARADISE LOST.
... Dutchman whose claim to have influenced him can hardly be proved, the Lucifer of Joost van den Vondel. Milton must have heard about and perhaps seen performances of sacred plays like Andreini's L'Adamo in Italy, and 174 PARADISE LOST.
Page 175
... Paradise Lost, and perhaps they are a link between it and the native English medieval drama. In puppet shows or “motions” that drama still survived in Milton's youth, and a capital criticism of its main weakness is implied in Milton's ...
... Paradise Lost, and perhaps they are a link between it and the native English medieval drama. In puppet shows or “motions” that drama still survived in Milton's youth, and a capital criticism of its main weakness is implied in Milton's ...
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