John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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Page 82
... theme " and " the moral theme , " a compromise that failed , since Comus is neither masque nor drama . There have 82 JOHN MILTON.
... theme " and " the moral theme , " a compromise that failed , since Comus is neither masque nor drama . There have 82 JOHN MILTON.
Page 85
... theme of Comus , as I have said , is the basic theme of a majority of English masques , the triumph of Virtue over Vice . Comus , I insist , was a masque . A masque was what Lawes had commissioned and he would have been the first to ...
... theme of Comus , as I have said , is the basic theme of a majority of English masques , the triumph of Virtue over Vice . Comus , I insist , was a masque . A masque was what Lawes had commissioned and he would have been the first to ...
Page 128
... theme is the freedom . of the press , not quite what we mean today when we speak more loosely about freedom of speech . Surely this is one piece of prose that Milton did not write with his left hand . In his political tracts , Milton ...
... theme is the freedom . of the press , not quite what we mean today when we speak more loosely about freedom of speech . Surely this is one piece of prose that Milton did not write with his left hand . In his political tracts , Milton ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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