A Milton HandbookAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1961 - 465 pages |
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Page 192
... known . 11 Bibliographers give the number variously from six to twelve . It is easy enough to explain the use of title pages bearing new dates . But how account for the fact that there are apparently four different 1667 title pages ...
... known . 11 Bibliographers give the number variously from six to twelve . It is easy enough to explain the use of title pages bearing new dates . But how account for the fact that there are apparently four different 1667 title pages ...
Page 245
... known to Mil- ton was the work of the medieval Rabbi Maimonides . There was also the Jewish history of Josephus , and the parallel work of Yosippon , called the Pseudo - Josephus , both of which he explicitly refers to . " From the ...
... known to Mil- ton was the work of the medieval Rabbi Maimonides . There was also the Jewish history of Josephus , and the parallel work of Yosippon , called the Pseudo - Josephus , both of which he explicitly refers to . " From the ...
Page 253
... known to Milton . Here Urania is , for the first time in literature , hailed as the celestial patroness of divine poetry rather than as the muse of astronomy . This conception became traditional and Milton's invocations are directly ...
... known to Milton . Here Urania is , for the first time in literature , hailed as the celestial patroness of divine poetry rather than as the muse of astronomy . This conception became traditional and Milton's invocations are directly ...
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