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 87
... Satan for his epics. It was no accident that he discarded the title which had been used by Hendrik van der Putten ... Satan's seduction of Eve. What Dyson calls Comus' “sensuous, suasive, insidious style” had traditionally been pitted ...
... Satan for his epics. It was no accident that he discarded the title which had been used by Hendrik van der Putten ... Satan's seduction of Eve. What Dyson calls Comus' “sensuous, suasive, insidious style” had traditionally been pitted ...
Page 173
... Satan's first attempt to seduce Eve, by a dream, in Book IV; the revolt of Satan's followers against God as Raphael reports it to Adam in Books V and VI; pausing to tell him of the refusal of a single seraph in the throng, Abdiel, to be ...
... Satan's first attempt to seduce Eve, by a dream, in Book IV; the revolt of Satan's followers against God as Raphael reports it to Adam in Books V and VI; pausing to tell him of the refusal of a single seraph in the throng, Abdiel, to be ...
Page 174
... Satan has been compared with Aeschylus' Prometheus, and the older editions of Paradise Lost mark many lines in Satan's speeches as conscious echoes of Prometheus Bound. But it would be impossible to write a book exploring Milton's debt ...
... Satan has been compared with Aeschylus' Prometheus, and the older editions of Paradise Lost mark many lines in Satan's speeches as conscious echoes of Prometheus Bound. But it would be impossible to write a book exploring Milton's debt ...
Page 176
... Satan of the poem that we have. There is no trace of the Satan who still seems to many readers to be tragic in at least an Elizabethan if not a Greek sense of the word. In an Elizabethan sense that makes tragedy consist in wilful self ...
... Satan of the poem that we have. There is no trace of the Satan who still seems to many readers to be tragic in at least an Elizabethan if not a Greek sense of the word. In an Elizabethan sense that makes tragedy consist in wilful self ...
Page 177
... Satan much more glorious than he ever meant to do,” and then “sought somewhat belatedly to rectify his earlier errors.” Satan Hero? 11. It is only in the first two books of Paradise Lost that Satan seems heroic. There is grandeur but no ...
... Satan much more glorious than he ever meant to do,” and then “sought somewhat belatedly to rectify his earlier errors.” Satan Hero? 11. It is only in the first two books of Paradise Lost that Satan seems heroic. There is grandeur but no ...
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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Adam Aeneid ancient angels Areopagitica Aristotle Beast behold bishops Book called Chorus Christ Christian church Comus dark death delight divine doctrine doth E. M. W. Tillyard Earth Euripides evil eyes faith Father fear fire glory God's goddess gods grace Greek hand happy hast hath heart Heav'n heavenly Hell Hesiod holy honor human John John Milton Jove King Latin meaning learned less light live Lord Lycidas marriage Milton mind Muses nature night Ovid Ovid's Paradise Lost Paradise Regained peace perhaps Philistines Plato poem poet praise prelates Psalm Roman Samson Agonistes Satan says Serpent song SONNET soul spake spirit stars stood story sweet thee things thir thou thought Throne tion tradition translation Tree truth verse VIII virtue wings wisdom words Zeus