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. |
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... political entity . The break with Rome , set in train for his own reasons by Henry VIII and doctrinally consolidated under his children Edward and Elizabeth , was a political as much as a theological event ; and the establishment of a ...
... political entity . The break with Rome , set in train for his own reasons by Henry VIII and doctrinally consolidated under his children Edward and Elizabeth , was a political as much as a theological event ; and the establishment of a ...
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... politics , wrote the eighteenth - century Tory critic Samuel Johnson , were those of ' an acrimonious and surly re- publican ' ( Johnson 1906 : p . 112 ) . William Blake , whose own political views were the opposite of Johnson's ...
... politics , wrote the eighteenth - century Tory critic Samuel Johnson , were those of ' an acrimonious and surly re- publican ' ( Johnson 1906 : p . 112 ) . William Blake , whose own political views were the opposite of Johnson's ...
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... political failure , blindness , an unhappy marriage , into a coherent narrative that runs like a subtext through everything he wrote . For autobiography does not just chronicle a life and a perso- nality ; it constructs them . To ...
... political failure , blindness , an unhappy marriage , into a coherent narrative that runs like a subtext through everything he wrote . For autobiography does not just chronicle a life and a perso- nality ; it constructs them . To ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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