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 viii
... mind. A few words about the meaning of his account of poetry as “more simple, sensuous, and passionate” than prose, in Of Education, may exorcise hobgoblins which seem to some readers to have plagued his esthetic and his pedagogy. For ...
... mind. A few words about the meaning of his account of poetry as “more simple, sensuous, and passionate” than prose, in Of Education, may exorcise hobgoblins which seem to some readers to have plagued his esthetic and his pedagogy. For ...
Page 33
... mind of man is pursued and overwearied, and how profound is the darkness of the Oedipean night in his breast!” His insane mind dare make its own acts the measure of those of the gods* and compare its own laws to those that are written ...
... mind of man is pursued and overwearied, and how profound is the darkness of the Oedipean night in his breast!” His insane mind dare make its own acts the measure of those of the gods* and compare its own laws to those that are written ...
Page 56
... mind's gifts, high courage, and the sounding lyre, and the Muses. Only at a single point will you find it less unyielding—the point where Love's dart has pierced incurably. IO alone” (Healey's tr. of Epictetus his Manuell, ed. of 1616 ...
... mind's gifts, high courage, and the sounding lyre, and the Muses. Only at a single point will you find it less unyielding—the point where Love's dart has pierced incurably. IO alone” (Healey's tr. of Epictetus his Manuell, ed. of 1616 ...
Page 57
... mind as the seat of memory and wisdom. 20. In a Pythagorean passage Virgil has Anchises cxplain the doctrine of metempsychosis to Aeneas— how after death all spirits drink the oblivion-giving waters of Lethe and suffer various ...
... mind as the seat of memory and wisdom. 20. In a Pythagorean passage Virgil has Anchises cxplain the doctrine of metempsychosis to Aeneas— how after death all spirits drink the oblivion-giving waters of Lethe and suffer various ...
Page 72
... mind with all your toys; Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the Sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle Pensioners of Morpheus' train. IO ...
... mind with all your toys; Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the Sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle Pensioners of Morpheus' train. IO ...
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