Selected Shorter Poems and Prose WritingsRoutledge, 1988 - 265 pages Includes Comus, Lycidas, and extracts from the prose, such as the early pamphlet, Of Reformation, and the celebrated Areopagitica in defence of freedom of the press. |
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Page 57
... Muse herself that Orpheus bore , The Muse herself , for her enchanting son ? Whom universal nature did lament , When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down the stream was sent , Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian ...
... Muse herself that Orpheus bore , The Muse herself , for her enchanting son ? Whom universal nature did lament , When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down the stream was sent , Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian ...
Page 202
... Muse ... Orpheus For both , see glossary . The legen- dary singer - poet Orpheus was decapitated and dis- membered by a group of Thracian women , and his head carried down the Hebrus ( modern Evros ) and south along the coast of Asia ...
... Muse ... Orpheus For both , see glossary . The legen- dary singer - poet Orpheus was decapitated and dis- membered by a group of Thracian women , and his head carried down the Hebrus ( modern Evros ) and south along the coast of Asia ...
Page 237
... Muses , as in the second Prolusion , Voice and Verse may correspond to Polyhymnia , muse of sacred song , and Euterpe , muse of lyric poetry , who are depicted alongside one another ( and immediately below Ura- nia , Milton's ' heavenly ...
... Muses , as in the second Prolusion , Voice and Verse may correspond to Polyhymnia , muse of sacred song , and Euterpe , muse of lyric poetry , who are depicted alongside one another ( and immediately below Ura- nia , Milton's ' heavenly ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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