John MiltonOxford University Press, 1994 - 324 pages Perhaps the greatest poet in the English language after Shakespeare, John Milton actually published very little until the appearance of Poems of Mr John Milton, both English and Latin in 1646, when he was thirty-seven. Including a wide range of his verse, this completely new selection of Milton's finest poetry offers extensive passages from Samson Agonistes, Paradise Regained, and his most famous work, Paradise Lost. Accessible and fully annotated, this volume shows just why Milton's influence on English poetry and criticism has been incalculable. |
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... voice of the English revolution to the world at large . After the failure of the Commonwealth he was briefly imprisoned ; blind and in straitened circumstances he returned to poetry , and in 1667 published a ten - book version of ...
... voice of the English revolution to the world at large . After the failure of the Commonwealth he was briefly imprisoned ; blind and in straitened circumstances he returned to poetry , and in 1667 published a ten - book version of ...
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... Voice , and Verse , Wed your divine sounds , and mixed power employ Dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce , And to our high - raised fantasy present , That undisturbed song of pure concent , Ay sung before the sapphire ...
... Voice , and Verse , Wed your divine sounds , and mixed power employ Dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce , And to our high - raised fantasy present , That undisturbed song of pure concent , Ay sung before the sapphire ...
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... voice , I thought it thine ; it said , Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time , The cool , the silent , save where silence yields To the night - warbling bird , that now awake Tunes sweetest his love - laboured song ; now ...
... voice , I thought it thine ; it said , Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time , The cool , the silent , save where silence yields To the night - warbling bird , that now awake Tunes sweetest his love - laboured song ; now ...
Contents
On Time | 8 |
At a Solemn Music | 9 |
On Shakespeare 1630 ΙΟ | 10 |
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Adam angel appeared arms bear blind Book bright bring called cause comes dark death deep delight divine earth evil eyes fair faith fall father fear fire flowers force fruit give goddess gods grace hand happy hast hath head heaven heavenly hell hence hill hope John Judg king Lady leave less light live look Lord Lost means Milton mind morn mortal move nature never night once pain Paradise Lost pass peace perhaps poem present pure reason rest round Samson Satan seek seemed sense shades shape side sight song Sonnet soon spirits star stood strength sweet taste thee things thou thought till tree turned virtue voice walk winds wings wonder