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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... lines of conventional piety about Shakespeare , was printed in 1632. About this time , too , he contributed some lines to a pastoral entertainment for the dowager Countess of Derby at Harefield House , with music by his friend Henry ...
... lines of conventional piety about Shakespeare , was printed in 1632. About this time , too , he contributed some lines to a pastoral entertainment for the dowager Countess of Derby at Harefield House , with music by his friend Henry ...
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... lines of the ' pilot of the Galilean lake ' and finds apt expression in the Spenserian metaphors may already be moving Milton away from the courtly genres with their classicized Christianity and their ac- quiescence , complacent or ...
... lines of the ' pilot of the Galilean lake ' and finds apt expression in the Spenserian metaphors may already be moving Milton away from the courtly genres with their classicized Christianity and their ac- quiescence , complacent or ...
Page 190
... lines that follow , Dian's bow , Cupid's bolt , Minerva's shield . silver - shafted a reference to her arrows ; cf. the ' quiver'd nymph ' in 422 . brinded dappled . snaky - headed Gorgon - shield Athene , the Roman Minerva ( see ...
... lines that follow , Dian's bow , Cupid's bolt , Minerva's shield . silver - shafted a reference to her arrows ; cf. the ' quiver'd nymph ' in 422 . brinded dappled . snaky - headed Gorgon - shield Athene , the Roman Minerva ( see ...
Contents
An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
Copyright | |
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