Milton's English Poetry: Being Entries from A Milton Encyclopedia

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William Bridges Hunter (Jr.)
Bucknell University Press, 1986 - Literary Criticism - 248 pages
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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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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