Milton's English Poetry: Being Entries from A Milton EncyclopediaWilliam Bridges Hunter (Jr.) In this survey one may discover Milton as he saw himself and come to recapture some of his originality. The selections from A Milton Encyclopedia in this volume were written by experts in each subject. |
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... less unalterable content of the psalms , he explored English stanzaic verse in ways not to be found again until the nine- teenth century . They may be practice poems ( for the revolutionary verse found in Samson ? ) like his English ...
... less unalterable content of the psalms , he explored English stanzaic verse in ways not to be found again until the nine- teenth century . They may be practice poems ( for the revolutionary verse found in Samson ? ) like his English ...
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... less often in the 1660s and 70s he was visited by foreign dignitaries or by such well - known people as Marvell and John Dryden , and by close friends like Dr. Nathan Paget . The one interruption from these years in London came during ...
... less often in the 1660s and 70s he was visited by foreign dignitaries or by such well - known people as Marvell and John Dryden , and by close friends like Dr. Nathan Paget . The one interruption from these years in London came during ...
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... less ambitious works did not serve as an introduction to an indoor masked ball in which the audience participated . Entertainments , as a form of social art , were created with the aim of complimenting one or more noble guests through ...
... less ambitious works did not serve as an introduction to an indoor masked ball in which the audience participated . Entertainments , as a form of social art , were created with the aim of complimenting one or more noble guests through ...
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... less mature productions of Milton's art than Nat , a position that requires one to believe that after the extraordinary variety and suppleness of the tetrameter couplets of L'AI and IIP , Milton moved to the heavier rhythms of Nat . The ...
... less mature productions of Milton's art than Nat , a position that requires one to believe that after the extraordinary variety and suppleness of the tetrameter couplets of L'AI and IIP , Milton moved to the heavier rhythms of Nat . The ...
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... less vivid to his imagination than to his actual presence . From pastoral occupations the scene shifts to the musical and social enter- tainments of " up - land Hamlets . " The daylight hours of the " Sunshine Holy- day " are given over ...
... less vivid to his imagination than to his actual presence . From pastoral occupations the scene shifts to the musical and social enter- tainments of " up - land Hamlets . " The daylight hours of the " Sunshine Holy- day " are given over ...
Contents
On the University Carrier | 103 |
On Time | 104 |
Paradise Lost | 105 |
Paradise Regained | 143 |
Passion The | 173 |
Psalms Miltons Translations from the | 174 |
Samson Agonistes | 182 |
On May Morning | 210 |
Lycidas | 45 |
Mask A | 67 |
On Shakespeare | 87 |
On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough | 88 |
On the Morning of Christs Nativity | 91 |
On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament | 101 |
Sonnets Miltons | 211 |
UPON THE CIRCUMCISION | 224 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 226 |
CONTRIBUTORS AND CONTRIBUTIONS | 244 |
INDEX | 246 |
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Page 114 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 80 - Arm his profane tongue with contemptuous words Against the sun-clad power of Chastity, Fain would I something say ; — yet to what end ? Thou hast nor ear, nor soul, to apprehend The sublime notion, and high mystery...
Page 28 - O'er the smooth enamelled green, Where no print of step hath been, Follow me, as I sing And touch the warbled string: Under the shady roof Of branching elm star-proof Follow me. I will bring you where she sits, Clad in splendour as befits Her deity. Such a rural Queen All Arcadia hath not seen.
Page 121 - I am who fill Infinitude, nor vacuous the space. Though I uncircumscribed myself retire, And put not forth my goodness, which is free To act or not, Necessity and Chance Approach not me, and what I will is Fate.
Page 98 - The lonely mountains o'er and the resounding shore a voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; from haunted spring and dale edged with poplar pale the parting Genius is with sighing sent; with flower-inwoven tresses torn the nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 114 - Many there be that complain of divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress. Foolish tongues! when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Page 124 - Fallen Cherub, to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering: but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist.
Page 43 - Cloud, While rocking Winds are Piping loud, Or usher'd with a shower still, When the gust hath blown his fill, Ending on the russling Leaves, With minute drops from off the Eaves. And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams...
Page 95 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...