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... modern punctuation to have the same degree of effectiveness as Butler's in displaying the organization of the sentence - which is in any case usually of a much easier and more flowing kind in modern prose than was the case in the mid ...
... modern punctuation to have the same degree of effectiveness as Butler's in displaying the organization of the sentence - which is in any case usually of a much easier and more flowing kind in modern prose than was the case in the mid ...
Page 83
... modern editors . The first editors of Paradise Lost also reacted with embarrassment to the unusual punctuation , often reducing Milton's heavy stops ; and most modern editors of Paradise Lost have followed the first edition . In this ...
... modern editors . The first editors of Paradise Lost also reacted with embarrassment to the unusual punctuation , often reducing Milton's heavy stops ; and most modern editors of Paradise Lost have followed the first edition . In this ...
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... modern practice , 1674 takes comma out before parenthesis at VI , 423 , whereas 1667 put comma in before paren- thesis at I , 143 ( accepted earlier practice ) . Again as in modern practice , 1674 more often deletes than gives comma ...
... modern practice , 1674 takes comma out before parenthesis at VI , 423 , whereas 1667 put comma in before paren- thesis at I , 143 ( accepted earlier practice ) . Again as in modern practice , 1674 more often deletes than gives comma ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ELIZABETHAN AND EARLIER SEVENTEENTH | 14 |
THE PUNCTUATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT | 54 |
Copyright | |
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antithesis Ben Jonson Butler caesura Caryl's clause colon commas added compositor Comus context copy corrections corrector Daines Darbishire's deleted distinctive downpointings dramatic earlier edition of Paradise edition's Elizabethan elocutionary emphasis end of line English epic similes example facsimiles Fletcher full stop grammatical Heav'n heavier heavy pointing heavy stops heightened independent clause instances John Milton Jonson logical Lycidas Manu Manuscript of Book Manuscript of Paradise mark metrical metrical pauses midline Milton's punctuation Milton's spelling Milton's verse Miss Darbishire modern omissions omitted oratorical Paradise Lost passage pattern poetical possibly practice printed texts printer pronunciational spelling proof changes prose punctuation changes punctuation variants reading rhetorical rhythm rhythmical punctuation Satan seems semicolon sense seventeenth century Shakespeare Shakespearian Punctuation Shawcross similarly Simpson sometimes Sonnet 11 Sonnets stress style of pointing style of punctuation syntactical syntax text of Paradise thir tion Trinity Manuscript usage verse periods verse sentences VIII Volpone