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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... CHRIST'S NATIVITY Composed 1629 The theme of this Ode—the triumph of the infant Christ over the gods of paganism— was dear to Christian humanists, Protestant and Catholic alike. Its most mysterious aspect, the silencing of the oracles ...
... CHRIST'S NATIVITY Composed 1629 The theme of this Ode—the triumph of the infant Christ over the gods of paganism— was dear to Christian humanists, Protestant and Catholic alike. Its most mysterious aspect, the silencing of the oracles ...
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... Christ would not be borne, untill there were peace throughout the whole worlde.” The Roman world was at peace for seven years before the traditional date of Christ's birth. 56. War-chariots often had hooks or blades projecting from the ...
... Christ would not be borne, untill there were peace throughout the whole worlde.” The Roman world was at peace for seven years before the traditional date of Christ's birth. 56. War-chariots often had hooks or blades projecting from the ...
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... Christ as the Good Shepherd in Renaissance poetry. Christ, says the Glosse to Maye in Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar, “calleth himselfe the greate and good shepherd. The name is most rightly . . . applyed to him for Pan signifieth all ...
... Christ as the Good Shepherd in Renaissance poetry. Christ, says the Glosse to Maye in Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar, “calleth himselfe the greate and good shepherd. The name is most rightly . . . applyed to him for Pan signifieth all ...
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... Christ's sufferings—greater than the labors of Hercules—make him more heroic than any hero of mythology. Cf. paragraph 22, page 479 below. 14. wight: creature, being. 15. Christ sets aside his divinity “to be made like unto his brethren ...
... Christ's sufferings—greater than the labors of Hercules—make him more heroic than any hero of mythology. Cf. paragraph 22, page 479 below. 14. wight: creature, being. 15. Christ sets aside his divinity “to be made like unto his brethren ...
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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