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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... poet . At any rate the two poems seem to signal a change of direction in Milton's plans . True , the Attendant Spirit who presides over the masque is a clerical figure , beneath the Arcadian disguise ; and Lycidas sits firmly in the ...
... poet . At any rate the two poems seem to signal a change of direction in Milton's plans . True , the Attendant Spirit who presides over the masque is a clerical figure , beneath the Arcadian disguise ; and Lycidas sits firmly in the ...
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... poet ' , released the first wave of serious Milton criticism , John Den- nis's discussion of his ' sublimity ' , later developed by Burke , and Addison's eighteen Spectator essays on Paradise Lost ( Shaw- cross 1970 : pp . 125-36 , 147 ...
... poet ' , released the first wave of serious Milton criticism , John Den- nis's discussion of his ' sublimity ' , later developed by Burke , and Addison's eighteen Spectator essays on Paradise Lost ( Shaw- cross 1970 : pp . 125-36 , 147 ...
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... poet , slender though his published output was . ' I can understand your wanting to write poems ' , T. S. Eliot remarked to the young Stephen Spender , ' but I don't quite know what you mean by " being a poet " ( Spender 1951 : p . 146 ) ...
... poet , slender though his published output was . ' I can understand your wanting to write poems ' , T. S. Eliot remarked to the young Stephen Spender , ' but I don't quite know what you mean by " being a poet " ( Spender 1951 : p . 146 ) ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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