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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... Greek. His first attempts, like his translations of 1648 and 1653, were influenced by the simple rhythms and rhymes of the Sternhold and Hopkins version (c.1547), which was widely used in congregational singing. His treatment of the ...
... Greek. His first attempts, like his translations of 1648 and 1653, were influenced by the simple rhythms and rhymes of the Sternhold and Hopkins version (c.1547), which was widely used in congregational singing. His treatment of the ...
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... use of that auricomum solem in Buchanan's version of this epithet for Apollo in the Greek paeans. Psalm, or it may have becn writtcn with a char1 Milton was rusticated (suspended) after a quarrel with his tutor 4 PSALM CXXXVI PSALM CXXXVI.
... use of that auricomum solem in Buchanan's version of this epithet for Apollo in the Greek paeans. Psalm, or it may have becn writtcn with a char1 Milton was rusticated (suspended) after a quarrel with his tutor 4 PSALM CXXXVI PSALM CXXXVI.
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... Greek name of the nightingale. 59. Cynthia: the goddess of the moon. 57. See Ely, I hear the far-off Curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore,. 43. sad: serious. Cf. Comus, 189. 83. The cry of the Bellman (night-watchman) calling the ...
... Greek name of the nightingale. 59. Cynthia: the goddess of the moon. 57. See Ely, I hear the far-off Curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore,. 43. sad: serious. Cf. Comus, 189. 83. The cry of the Bellman (night-watchman) calling the ...
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... Greek Hermes and was supposed to have been the author of numerous esoteric writings which were actually written in Alexandria in the third and fourth centuries A.D. Milton probably knew them in the translation of the Florentine ...
... Greek Hermes and was supposed to have been the author of numerous esoteric writings which were actually written in Alexandria in the third and fourth centuries A.D. Milton probably knew them in the translation of the Florentine ...
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... Greek elements like the prologue-soliloquy and the swift exchange of alternate speeches of single lines in dialogue (stichomythia), which in Comus are usually traced to plays like Euripides' Bacchae and Iphigemeia in Tauris. Miss Finney ...
... Greek elements like the prologue-soliloquy and the swift exchange of alternate speeches of single lines in dialogue (stichomythia), which in Comus are usually traced to plays like Euripides' Bacchae and Iphigemeia in Tauris. Miss Finney ...
Contents
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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