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Page xxxv
... poems may be regarded as a part of Milton's prepara- tion for his two great elegies , Lycidas and the Epi- taphium Damonis . The Latin poem on the Gunpowder Plot ( In Quin- tum Novembris ) is his first essay at epic . It contains ...
... poems may be regarded as a part of Milton's prepara- tion for his two great elegies , Lycidas and the Epi- taphium Damonis . The Latin poem on the Gunpowder Plot ( In Quin- tum Novembris ) is his first essay at epic . It contains ...
Page xl
... poem On the Morning of Christ's Nativity and must have been written for the succeeding Easter ( i.e. , 1630 ) . Milton had perhaps designed a series of religious poems on the events of the Christian year . But the Passion offers no such ...
... poem On the Morning of Christ's Nativity and must have been written for the succeeding Easter ( i.e. , 1630 ) . Milton had perhaps designed a series of religious poems on the events of the Christian year . But the Passion offers no such ...
Page lxxxii
... poem owes something to the Book of Job , which he mentions as a type of the " short epic " in a passage in The Reason of Church Government . Both are mainly dialogue , with long philosophical speeches on opposing points of view . In ...
... poem owes something to the Book of Job , which he mentions as a type of the " short epic " in a passage in The Reason of Church Government . Both are mainly dialogue , with long philosophical speeches on opposing points of view . In ...
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Preface | v |
A Paraphrase on Psalm 114 | 1 |
On the Death of a Fair Infant Anno Ętatis | 7 |
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