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 153
... story not only with the borders and mountain fastnesses of Wales but with the ancient ' matter of Britain ' , the legendary prehistory of that old and haughty nation ' that Milton found in Drayton , Spenser , and Geoffrey of Monmouth ...
... story not only with the borders and mountain fastnesses of Wales but with the ancient ' matter of Britain ' , the legendary prehistory of that old and haughty nation ' that Milton found in Drayton , Spenser , and Geoffrey of Monmouth ...
Page 214
... story of the Persian emperor Cyrus is from the first book of Herodotus ' Histories . drift a scheme or plot . one day at least The 1633 royal declaration Concerning Lawful Sports , usually referred to as the Book of Sports , forbade any ...
... story of the Persian emperor Cyrus is from the first book of Herodotus ' Histories . drift a scheme or plot . one day at least The 1633 royal declaration Concerning Lawful Sports , usually referred to as the Book of Sports , forbade any ...
Page 242
... story of Orpheus and Euridice . story of Cambuscan Chaucer's unfinished Squire's Tale . more is meant In Spenserian allegory ( which Spenser himself called ' dark conceit ' ) the deeper meanings are concealed within a romantic narrative ...
... story of Orpheus and Euridice . story of Cambuscan Chaucer's unfinished Squire's Tale . more is meant In Spenserian allegory ( which Spenser himself called ' dark conceit ' ) the deeper meanings are concealed within a romantic narrative ...
Contents
An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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