John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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... youth Milton spent with a family that often sang together and invited friends to sing with them . President Neilson , remember- ing his own Scottish youth in a family not very different from Mil- ton's , may say the final word on this ...
... youth Milton spent with a family that often sang together and invited friends to sing with them . President Neilson , remember- ing his own Scottish youth in a family not very different from Mil- ton's , may say the final word on this ...
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... youth not far removed from boyhood would : And wroth to see his kingdom fail , Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail . Milton never saw a dragon , nor did you or I. But all of us who in youth believed in dragons , as we believed ...
... youth not far removed from boyhood would : And wroth to see his kingdom fail , Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail . Milton never saw a dragon , nor did you or I. But all of us who in youth believed in dragons , as we believed ...
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... youth — a pre- cocious youth - when " no childish play " was pleasing to him . Above his years , he read the Law and became so adept that he disputed with the teachers in the Temple . " Victorious deeds " in- flamed his heart . He felt ...
... youth — a pre- cocious youth - when " no childish play " was pleasing to him . Above his years , he read the Law and became so adept that he disputed with the teachers in the Temple . " Victorious deeds " in- flamed his heart . He felt ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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