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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... written by Homer and Virgil , with its beginning in medias res , invocations to a goddess ( not to a god ) , its opening statement of theme , its epic question ( “ what cause / Mov'd our Grand Parents . . . to fall off / From their ...
... written by Homer and Virgil , with its beginning in medias res , invocations to a goddess ( not to a god ) , its opening statement of theme , its epic question ( “ what cause / Mov'd our Grand Parents . . . to fall off / From their ...
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... written before in English and perhaps because of its intrinsic difficulty would not be again in any significant work , its employment of proper names as sonorous support to the sense , and its control of verse texture : " The wakefull ...
... written before in English and perhaps because of its intrinsic difficulty would not be again in any significant work , its employment of proper names as sonorous support to the sense , and its control of verse texture : " The wakefull ...
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... written one in Italian while still at college ) , characteristically exploring its potential for original treatment . In the first two of these poems he experimented with sustaining very long sentences through many lines of irregular ...
... written one in Italian while still at college ) , characteristically exploring its potential for original treatment . In the first two of these poems he experimented with sustaining very long sentences through many lines of irregular ...
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... writing poetry in English , having published so far a 16 - line piece on Shakespeare prefixed to the Second Folio of ... written , as all twenty - three of them would ultimately be , in the strict Italian form , and the subject of this ...
... writing poetry in English , having published so far a 16 - line piece on Shakespeare prefixed to the Second Folio of ... written , as all twenty - three of them would ultimately be , in the strict Italian form , and the subject of this ...
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... written ) , Samson Agonistes . Enough has been said above to establish the revolutionary character of its verse , unmatched anywhere else in our literature but completely satisfying , whether it is read silently or aloud . Equally ...
... written ) , Samson Agonistes . Enough has been said above to establish the revolutionary character of its verse , unmatched anywhere else in our literature but completely satisfying , whether it is read silently or aloud . Equally ...
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...