Selected Shorter Poems and Prose WritingsIncludes 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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 36
Page 82
... Christ's holy Church . Were it such a desperate hazard to put to the venture the universal votes of Christ's con- gregation , the fellowly and friendly yoke of a teaching and laborious ministry , the pastor - like and apostolic im ...
... Christ's holy Church . Were it such a desperate hazard to put to the venture the universal votes of Christ's con- gregation , the fellowly and friendly yoke of a teaching and laborious ministry , the pastor - like and apostolic im ...
Page 105
... greet , And join thy voice unto the Angel choir , From out his secret altar touch'd with hallow'd fire . The Hymn I It was the winter wild , While 105 [ 230-6 ] from Poems of Mr John Milton (1645) On the morning of Christ's Nativity.
... greet , And join thy voice unto the Angel choir , From out his secret altar touch'd with hallow'd fire . The Hymn I It was the winter wild , While 105 [ 230-6 ] from Poems of Mr John Milton (1645) On the morning of Christ's Nativity.
Page 200
... Christ's College and an acquaintance of Milton , drowned on his way to Ireland . Reprinting the poem in 1645 , Milton sharpened the political argument ( see 129n ) and prefaced it with the heading : ' In this monody the author bewails a ...
... Christ's College and an acquaintance of Milton , drowned on his way to Ireland . Reprinting the poem in 1645 , Milton sharpened the political argument ( see 129n ) and prefaced it with the heading : ' In this monody the author bewails a ...
Contents
An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
Copyright | |
10 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aeneid allegory ancient Anglican Areopagitica Areopagus argued authority bishops blind called Christ Christian church civil Commonwealth Comus Council Countess of Derby courtly critical daughter death deities divine doctrine doth English father fear genre glossary goddess grace Greek hath Heaven hence Homeric honour ideas John John Milton Johnson Jove judgement justice king Lady Latin Leucothea liberty Locrine London Lord Ludlow Ludlow Castle Lycidas magistrate masque means Melicertes Milton Muse Nativity neo-Platonic Nereids never nymph Odyssey pamphlets Paradise Lost Parliament passage pastoral peace perhaps Platonic poem poet poetry political prelates prose Protestant Psyche published Puritan reading Ready and Easy reference Reformation Renaissance Roman Sabrina Samson Agonistes senate shepherd song sonnet soul Spenser Spirit star story T. S. Eliot thee things thou thought tion traditional truth virgin virtue W. B. Yeats Wind writing Yale Zeus