The Riverside MiltonThe first one-volume anthology of John Milton's complete poetry and selected prose to be published in over 30 years, The Riverside Milton reflects the highest quality and most current scholarship. As editor of The Milton Quarterly for 30 years, Roy Flannagan is uniquely qualified to survey Milton's work. Pedagogy includes a comprehensive index designed to help students from undergraduate to graduate levels conceive paper topics; factual introductions; extensive annotations with references; margin definitions; and a chronology. |
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Page 518
... Fowler points out , the War in Heaven begins by looking like the combats of Renaissance epic such as those in Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato , but Milton's narrative is " more impressionistic and economical and functional , " hence ...
... Fowler points out , the War in Heaven begins by looking like the combats of Renaissance epic such as those in Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato , but Milton's narrative is " more impressionistic and economical and functional , " hence ...
Page 531
... Fowler ( 6.749-59n ) , following Qvarnström , sees numerical and alchemical significance in the placing of the symbolic throne at what he considers to be the numerical center of the ten- book version of Paradise Lost . Fowler ( 6.761n ...
... Fowler ( 6.749-59n ) , following Qvarnström , sees numerical and alchemical significance in the placing of the symbolic throne at what he considers to be the numerical center of the ten- book version of Paradise Lost . Fowler ( 6.761n ...
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... Fowler notes that the phrase " horned floud " might be derived not from Vergil's description of the Tiber River ( Aeneid 8.77 ) but from similar images in Ben Jonson's plays or William Browne's Brittania's Pastorals ( 2.5 ; Fowler 829 ...
... Fowler notes that the phrase " horned floud " might be derived not from Vergil's description of the Tiber River ( Aeneid 8.77 ) but from similar images in Ben Jonson's plays or William Browne's Brittania's Pastorals ( 2.5 ; Fowler 829 ...
Contents
Early Lives | 1 |
Poems published first in 1673 Poems | 246 |
Uncollected Poems from Manuscripts | 289 |
Copyright | |
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