John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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... Latin was the common language . In the four lower forms , the boys ' time was spent in learning Latin grammar and conversation , in reading simpler Latin literature and in writing essays and themes in Latin , following models assigned ...
... Latin was the common language . In the four lower forms , the boys ' time was spent in learning Latin grammar and conversation , in reading simpler Latin literature and in writing essays and themes in Latin , following models assigned ...
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... Latin , and often in Latin verse . ( Two of the extant let- ters of Diodati to Milton are in Greek . ) Diodati left St. Paul's for Trinity College , Oxford , in 1623 , Milton for Christ's College , Cam- bridge , in 1625. The education ...
... Latin , and often in Latin verse . ( Two of the extant let- ters of Diodati to Milton are in Greek . ) Diodati left St. Paul's for Trinity College , Oxford , in 1623 , Milton for Christ's College , Cam- bridge , in 1625. The education ...
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... Latin and eleven Greek authors , both prose and poetry . Milton's students were not limited to the Latin and Greek . Like himself , they learned some Hebrew , and as he suggested most casually in the tractate , " where to it would be no ...
... Latin and eleven Greek authors , both prose and poetry . Milton's students were not limited to the Latin and Greek . Like himself , they learned some Hebrew , and as he suggested most casually in the tractate , " where to it would be no ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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