John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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Page 93
... things in Nature . The comparisons are to blights that cause the death of young things . As the disease of canker kills the rose , as the worm kills the young herds and flocks , as frost kills flowers , so ugly death has killed the ...
... things in Nature . The comparisons are to blights that cause the death of young things . As the disease of canker kills the rose , as the worm kills the young herds and flocks , as frost kills flowers , so ugly death has killed the ...
Page 195
... things appear horrid , sad and lamenta- ble , with a most formidable face of things . " * * In my article on this subject , " Milton's Hell and the Phlegraean Fields ( U.T.Q. VII [ 1938 ] 500-513 ) , I included two contemporary pictures ...
... things appear horrid , sad and lamenta- ble , with a most formidable face of things . " * * In my article on this subject , " Milton's Hell and the Phlegraean Fields ( U.T.Q. VII [ 1938 ] 500-513 ) , I included two contemporary pictures ...
Page 251
... things in the universe came from God and all aspire to return to Him : O Adam , one Almighty is , from whom All things proceed , and up to Him return . ( V. 469-70 ) Among the elements , earth aspires upward through water , air , to ...
... things in the universe came from God and all aspire to return to Him : O Adam , one Almighty is , from whom All things proceed , and up to Him return . ( V. 469-70 ) Among the elements , earth aspires upward through water , air , to ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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