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Page xi
... writing . In punctuation we find a valuable tool for the analysis of style in earlier prose and verse and a gauge to some of the puzzling phenomena of stylistic change . The general style of punctuation in Paradise Lost itself , parti ...
... writing . In punctuation we find a valuable tool for the analysis of style in earlier prose and verse and a gauge to some of the puzzling phenomena of stylistic change . The general style of punctuation in Paradise Lost itself , parti ...
Page xii
... style of Paradise Lost , and it is hoped that the questions here raised about Milton's versification and poetic rhetoric may be of interest to ... style of punctuation employed in another work coming out of the publishing house xii PREFACE.
... style of Paradise Lost , and it is hoped that the questions here raised about Milton's versification and poetic rhetoric may be of interest to ... style of punctuation employed in another work coming out of the publishing house xii PREFACE.
Page 49
... style was rather clumsy ( or even , in its metrical aspect , too old - fashioned ) , and so may have thought it advisable to modify it in favour of a lighter style which combined gram- matical distinctness with greater ease . Wither's ...
... style was rather clumsy ( or even , in its metrical aspect , too old - fashioned ) , and so may have thought it advisable to modify it in favour of a lighter style which combined gram- matical distinctness with greater ease . Wither's ...
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