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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... reference back to the ' fountain , shade and rill ' of line 24 ; and an evocation of the Elysian fields . cf. the description of Paradise in similar terms , Paradise Lost , IV . his oozy locks he laves cf. Comus , 860-3 and 880-2 . The ...
... reference back to the ' fountain , shade and rill ' of line 24 ; and an evocation of the Elysian fields . cf. the description of Paradise in similar terms , Paradise Lost , IV . his oozy locks he laves cf. Comus , 860-3 and 880-2 . The ...
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... reference to the constant friction be- tween the Dutch East India Company and English merchants in the Far East . French king In 1632 Louis XIII had offered to help the Dutch against the Spanish in the Thirty Years War . rochet ...
... reference to the constant friction be- tween the Dutch East India Company and English merchants in the Far East . French king In 1632 Louis XIII had offered to help the Dutch against the Spanish in the Thirty Years War . rochet ...
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... reference is to two popular sixteenth - century romances , Sidney's Arcadia ( 1590 ) and Jorge de Montemayor's Diana ( 1559 ) . Atlantic and Utopian polities two famous imaginary commonwealths , Francis Bacon's New Atlantis ( c . 1623 ) ...
... reference is to two popular sixteenth - century romances , Sidney's Arcadia ( 1590 ) and Jorge de Montemayor's Diana ( 1559 ) . Atlantic and Utopian polities two famous imaginary commonwealths , Francis Bacon's New Atlantis ( c . 1623 ) ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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