ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xii
... four of them have great autobiographic value as an indirect commentary , written from Milton's coign of seclusion , upon the moral crisis through which English life and thought were passing , the clash between the care- less , pleasure ...
... four of them have great autobiographic value as an indirect commentary , written from Milton's coign of seclusion , upon the moral crisis through which English life and thought were passing , the clash between the care- less , pleasure ...
Page xiv
... Milton ; why , it is not certain . She was reconciled to her husband in 1645 , bore him four children , and died in 1652 , in her twenty - seventh year . Divorce . Clearly he had little leisure for literature proper xiv INTRODUCTION .
... Milton ; why , it is not certain . She was reconciled to her husband in 1645 , bore him four children , and died in 1652 , in her twenty - seventh year . Divorce . Clearly he had little leisure for literature proper xiv INTRODUCTION .
Page xxiv
... four years of his life were devoted to prose works of no 1 The number of Milton's sonnets is twenty - three ( if we exclude the piece on " The New Forcers of Conscience " ) , five of which were written in Italian , probably during the ...
... four years of his life were devoted to prose works of no 1 The number of Milton's sonnets is twenty - three ( if we exclude the piece on " The New Forcers of Conscience " ) , five of which were written in Italian , probably during the ...
Page xli
... four chief variations employed by Milton's chief Milton1 in Comus are these : ( 1 ) His use of the " overflow " of the sense from one line to another ; what the French call " enjambement . ” variations . The " overflow . " Put simply ...
... four chief variations employed by Milton's chief Milton1 in Comus are these : ( 1 ) His use of the " overflow " of the sense from one line to another ; what the French call " enjambement . ” variations . The " overflow . " Put simply ...
Page xliii
... four feet of a line . Com- pare ( a ) " Strive to | keep up a frail and feverish being " ( 8 ) ; ( b ) " Be well | stóck'd with | as fair a herd as grazed ” ( 152 ) ; ( c ) " But to my task . | Néptune | besides the sway " ( 18 ) ; ( et ) ...
... four feet of a line . Com- pare ( a ) " Strive to | keep up a frail and feverish being " ( 8 ) ; ( b ) " Be well | stóck'd with | as fair a herd as grazed ” ( 152 ) ; ( c ) " But to my task . | Néptune | besides the sway " ( 18 ) ; ( et ) ...
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Adonis Æneid allusion Ben Jonson blank verse called Cambridge character charmed chastity Circe classical Comus crown dance daughter Earl of Bridgewater Echo Elder Brother Elizabethan enchanted English epithet Estrildis evil eyes Faerie Queene fair favourite Germ Glossary goddess gods hath Heaven hence Henry Wotton Homer honour Il Penseroso influence Italy Jonson King L'Allegro Lady Latin Lawes's legend Locrine Lord Lord Brackley Ludlow Castle Lycidas lyric Masque Masson metaphor Midsummer-Night's Dream Milton nature night noun nymph Odyssey original Paradise Lost passage pastoral Penseroso perhaps phrase piece pleasure poem poet poetic poetry probably Puritanism reference rhyme rhythm river Sabrina Sabrina fair Samson Agonistes says scene sense Shakespeare Shepheards Calender shepherd Sir Henry song Sonnet soul speaks Spenser Spirit stage-direction story sweet syllable Tempest Tennyson thou Thyrsis trochee verb virgin Virtue wood word writers youth