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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... reference rooms of scholarly libraries throughout the world , has prompted the publication of Milton's English Poetry to make available to individuals some of the Encyclopedia's major resources . Milton's English Poetry includes the ...
... reference rooms of scholarly libraries throughout the world , has prompted the publication of Milton's English Poetry to make available to individuals some of the Encyclopedia's major resources . Milton's English Poetry includes the ...
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... reference to being in Hammersmith in the summer of 1631 . The two further periods when Milton was not in Cambridge were the Lent Term of 1626 ( until April 19 ) and the period when the university was closed due to the plague , from ...
... reference to being in Hammersmith in the summer of 1631 . The two further periods when Milton was not in Cambridge were the Lent Term of 1626 ( until April 19 ) and the period when the university was closed due to the plague , from ...
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... references in the text , together with the limited external evidence available , suggest that Arc was performed after dark on the elm - lined green leading to the entrance of Harefield House , probably on May 3 , 1634 , in celebration ...
... references in the text , together with the limited external evidence available , suggest that Arc was performed after dark on the elm - lined green leading to the entrance of Harefield House , probably on May 3 , 1634 , in celebration ...
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... references to nature and descriptions of country scenery that were assumed to derive from direct observation . But it is now customary to date them in 1631 ( see Tillyard , The Miltonic Setting [ 1938 ] , pp . 1–28 , which reprints ...
... references to nature and descriptions of country scenery that were assumed to derive from direct observation . But it is now customary to date them in 1631 ( see Tillyard , The Miltonic Setting [ 1938 ] , pp . 1–28 , which reprints ...
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... references are typical and unspecified , rather than particular and immediate . Some details are observed , others participated in directly , while still others are speculatively proposed by the imagination as typical activities out ...
... references are typical and unspecified , rather than particular and immediate . Some details are observed , others participated in directly , while still others are speculatively proposed by the imagination as typical activities out ...
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...
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