ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page v
... close with his death in 1674. The poems given in the present volume date from the first of these periods ; but we propose to summarise briefly the main events of all three . Born 1608 ; the poet's father . John Milton was born on ...
... close with his death in 1674. The poems given in the present volume date from the first of these periods ; but we propose to summarise briefly the main events of all three . Born 1608 ; the poet's father . John Milton was born on ...
Page vii
... close with his death in 1674. The poems given in the present volume date from the first of these periods ; but we propose to summarise briefly the main events of all three . Born 1608 ; the poet's father . John Milton was born on ...
... close with his death in 1674. The poems given in the present volume date from the first of these periods ; but we propose to summarise briefly the main events of all three . Born 1608 ; the poet's father . John Milton was born on ...
Page xiii
... close of the first period in his life . Cause of his return to England . The composition of Lycidas may be assigned to the year 1637. In the spring of the next year Milton started for Italy . He had long made himself a master of Italian ...
... close of the first period in his life . Cause of his return to England . The composition of Lycidas may be assigned to the year 1637. In the spring of the next year Milton started for Italy . He had long made himself a master of Italian ...
Page xiv
... close connection with Lycidas , the last of the long Latin poems . Thenceforth , for a long spell , the rest was silence , so far as concerned poetry . The period which for all men represents the strength and maturity of manhood , which ...
... close connection with Lycidas , the last of the long Latin poems . Thenceforth , for a long spell , the rest was silence , so far as concerned poetry . The period which for all men represents the strength and maturity of manhood , which ...
Page xv
... containing the English , the second the Latin poems . Comus was printed at the close of the former , with a separate title - page to mark its importance . V. C. b The advan- tage of the post . becoming Latin1 Secretary LIFE OF MILTON . XV.
... containing the English , the second the Latin poems . Comus was printed at the close of the former , with a separate title - page to mark its importance . V. C. b The advan- tage of the post . becoming Latin1 Secretary LIFE OF MILTON . XV.
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