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 36
... shepherd , I suppose , In such a scant allowance of starlight , Would overtask the best land - pilot's art , Without the sure guess of well - practis'd feet . Comus . I know each lane , and every alley green , Dingle or bushy dell of ...
... shepherd , I suppose , In such a scant allowance of starlight , Would overtask the best land - pilot's art , Without the sure guess of well - practis'd feet . Comus . I know each lane , and every alley green , Dingle or bushy dell of ...
Page 41
... shepherd . That hallo I should know . What are you ? Speak . Come not too near , you fall on iron stakes else . Spirit . What voice is that ? My young lord ? Speak again . Sec . Bro . O brother , ' tis my father's shepherd sure . Eld ...
... shepherd . That hallo I should know . What are you ? Speak . Come not too near , you fall on iron stakes else . Spirit . What voice is that ? My young lord ? Speak again . Sec . Bro . O brother , ' tis my father's shepherd sure . Eld ...
Page 160
... shepherd figure into an analogue of both poet and priest , an identification absent from the classical and ... shepherd's equivalent in a later period , William Empson has suggested , is a child like Alice , allowed to say things about ...
... shepherd figure into an analogue of both poet and priest , an identification absent from the classical and ... shepherd's equivalent in a later period , William Empson has suggested , is a child like Alice , allowed to say things about ...
Contents
An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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