John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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Page 141
... Sonnet IV ( Cowper translation ) We have paused momentarily over the English sonnet , written for his birthday , when he felt that his " late spring no bud or blossom showeth . " One other early English sonnet remains , Sonnet I on the ...
... Sonnet IV ( Cowper translation ) We have paused momentarily over the English sonnet , written for his birthday , when he felt that his " late spring no bud or blossom showeth . " One other early English sonnet remains , Sonnet I on the ...
Page 143
... sonnet upon sonnets ; the very limitations of the convent room symbolize the values they sought in the life they have deliberately chosen . So poets have felt for generations about the limitations imposed by the sonnet . As Milton ...
... sonnet upon sonnets ; the very limitations of the convent room symbolize the values they sought in the life they have deliberately chosen . So poets have felt for generations about the limitations imposed by the sonnet . As Milton ...
Page 145
... Sonnet XVII to Sir Henry Vane is really a conventional sonnet of tribute , but because of the political references I shall put it into the third group . In the numbering of the sonnets I follow , as do most mod- ern editors , the ...
... Sonnet XVII to Sir Henry Vane is really a conventional sonnet of tribute , but because of the political references I shall put it into the third group . In the numbering of the sonnets I follow , as do most mod- ern editors , the ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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