The Complete Poems and Major ProseFirst published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume. |
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Page 17
... Euripides' Bacchanals. 69. Cf. eldest Night in PL II, 894. Milton imagined her as Virgil describes her, “black Night, riding through the sky in her chariot” (Aen. V, 721). “Her twyfold Teme,” of which Spenser said (F.Q. I, v, 28) two ...
... Euripides' Bacchanals. 69. Cf. eldest Night in PL II, 894. Milton imagined her as Virgil describes her, “black Night, riding through the sky in her chariot” (Aen. V, 721). “Her twyfold Teme,” of which Spenser said (F.Q. I, v, 28) two ...
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... Euripides' Medea and Ovid's tragic retelling of the tale (Heroides VI, 129–38). 11. Ovid (Met, V, 643–50) tells how Ceres sent Triptolemus in her chariot from Eleusis in Attica to sow the world with wheat as far as Scythia. Later Ovid ...
... Euripides' Medea and Ovid's tragic retelling of the tale (Heroides VI, 129–38). 11. Ovid (Met, V, 643–50) tells how Ceres sent Triptolemus in her chariot from Eleusis in Attica to sow the world with wheat as far as Scythia. Later Ovid ...
Page 74
... Euripides' Trojan Dames, Andromache, and Hecuba. 104. Perhaps Milton remembered Virgil's picture of the mythical bard Musaeus standing “foremost of all the heroes and poets” in Elysium (Aen. VI, 656–8). 105. Cf. Orpheus in L'All, 145, n ...
... Euripides' Trojan Dames, Andromache, and Hecuba. 104. Perhaps Milton remembered Virgil's picture of the mythical bard Musaeus standing “foremost of all the heroes and poets” in Elysium (Aen. VI, 656–8). 105. Cf. Orpheus in L'All, 145, n ...
Page 88
... Euripides' Bacchae and Iphigemeia in Tauris. Miss Finney makes a strong case, but it must be judged in comparison with Mario Praz's confident claim for Tasso's Aminta as Milton's model (in S.C.S.H.G., pp. 202–03), which suggests wider ...
... Euripides' Bacchae and Iphigemeia in Tauris. Miss Finney makes a strong case, but it must be judged in comparison with Mario Praz's confident claim for Tasso's Aminta as Milton's model (in S.C.S.H.G., pp. 202–03), which suggests wider ...
Page 92
... Euripides' sun god “sitting exalted in a golden chariot and dividing his path through the heavens” (Phoenecian Damsels, 1–2) to cool his glowing wheels in the western ocean at night, and Ovid's picture of the chariot of Phoebus (Met. II ...
... Euripides' sun god “sitting exalted in a golden chariot and dividing his path through the heavens” (Phoenecian Damsels, 1–2) to cool his glowing wheels in the western ocean at night, and Ovid's picture of the chariot of Phoebus (Met. II ...
Contents
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Paradise Regained | 471 |
Samson Agonistes | 531 |
Prose | 595 |
Appendix | 1021 |
Index of Names | 1045 |
BACK COVER | 1060 |
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