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The influence of Milton on English poetry

Print Book, English, 1922
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1922
Criticism, interpretation, etc
722 pages 24 cm
360220
Part I: The attitude of the eighteenth century towards Milton
Milton's fame in the eighteenth century
Blank verse and rime
Prosody and diction
Part II:
A. The influence of Paradise Lost
The characteristics of Paradise Lost and their relation to eighteenth-century blank verse
The influence before Thomson, 1667-1726
Thomson
Young
Cowper
Wordsworth
Keats
The influence outside of blank verse; Ossian, Blake, Shelley, Byron
B. The influence of Paradise Lost as shown in the more important types of blank-verse poetry
Meditative and descriptive poetry
Epic and burlesque poetry
Translations of the classics
Technical treatises in verse
Philosophical and religious poetry
Part III: The shorter poems
Late vogue of the shorter poems
The influence of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso
Milton and the sonnet, with a history of the sonnet in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
The influence of the remaining poems
Lycidas
Comus and Samson Agonistes
The translation from Horace
The nativity
Includes index