Milton's English Poetry: Being Entries from A Milton EncyclopediaWilliam Bridges Hunter (Jr.) Bucknell University Press, 1986 - 248 Seiten 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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... 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 trump of doom must thunder ...
... 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 trump of doom must thunder ...
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... Perhaps this is one of the reasons for its lesser popularity than that of its longer companion , Paradise Lost . Milton himself suggested the book of Job as an example of such a shorter epic , but the comparison is not very enlightening ...
... Perhaps this is one of the reasons for its lesser popularity than that of its longer companion , Paradise Lost . Milton himself suggested the book of Job as an example of such a shorter epic , but the comparison is not very enlightening ...
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... Perhaps the decision to attend a formal school was prompted as much by Young's removal to Hamburg because of difficulties with the Church au- thorities as it was by Milton's level of learning . Milton remained at St. Paul's until early ...
... Perhaps the decision to attend a formal school was prompted as much by Young's removal to Hamburg because of difficulties with the Church au- thorities as it was by Milton's level of learning . Milton remained at St. Paul's until early ...
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... Perhaps he did not seek one , and perhaps his removal to his father's house from 1632 through 1638 was necessi- tated by the age and increasing infirmity of his parents rather than reaction to a lack of academic preferment . The reasons ...
... Perhaps he did not seek one , and perhaps his removal to his father's house from 1632 through 1638 was necessi- tated by the age and increasing infirmity of his parents rather than reaction to a lack of academic preferment . The reasons ...
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Being Entries from A Milton Encyclopedia William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) and perhaps other poems . The last two works indicate Milton's acquaintance with the Bridgewater ( or Egerton ) family , probably through their music teacher , Henry ...
Being Entries from A Milton Encyclopedia William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) and perhaps other poems . The last two works indicate Milton's acquaintance with the Bridgewater ( or Egerton ) family , probably through their music teacher , Henry ...
Inhalt
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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achievement Adam Adam and Eve Aeneid allegorical allusions angels argues argument biblical blank verse Book Brief Epic Christ Christian classical Comus Comus's contrast couplets critics Dalila dance death divine dramatic E. M. W. Tillyard early eclogue edition episode essay example F. T. Prince genre God's Greek Harapha heaven hero heroic human iambic pentameter imagery images Italian John Milton Journal of English kingdom L'Al Lady language Latin lines literary Lycidas Mask masque masque's Melancholy Milton's poem modern nature pagan Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parker pastoral Patrides pattern Philology Platonic play poem's poet poet's poetic poetry praise present prose Psalm reader reading reference religious Renaissance rhyme rhythm Sabrina Samson Agonistes Satan scene sense sestet Shawcross shepherds song Sonn sonnet speech Spirit stanza structure Studies style suggests temptation theme tion tradition tragedy translation University Virgil words
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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...