The Complete Poems and Major ProseFirst published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume. |
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... Hesiod, Theogony Thinker-Denis Saurat, Milton: Man and Thinker (1925) Tim. – Plato, Timaeus Tradition — Elizabeth M. Pope, “Paradise Regained": The Tradition and the Poem (1947) Vanity – Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing Verse ...
... Hesiod, Theogony Thinker-Denis Saurat, Milton: Man and Thinker (1925) Tim. – Plato, Timaeus Tradition — Elizabeth M. Pope, “Paradise Regained": The Tradition and the Poem (1947) Vanity – Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing Verse ...
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... Hesiod (Theog., 52–79) represents the Muses (of whom Clio, the Muse of History, stands first) as being born to Zeus by Mnemosyne (Memory) on Mt. Pierus in Macedonia. 33. Ovid (Met. II, 153) makes Aethon one of the sun's four horses ...
... Hesiod (Theog., 52–79) represents the Muses (of whom Clio, the Muse of History, stands first) as being born to Zeus by Mnemosyne (Memory) on Mt. Pierus in Macedonia. 33. Ovid (Met. II, 153) makes Aethon one of the sun's four horses ...
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... Hesiod describes Earth as the mother of Heaven, the mountains, Time, Hyperion, and many of the elder gods (Theog ... Hesiod's account (Theog., 617– 735) of the piling up of the mountains by the assailants of the gods on Mt. Olympus. 37 ...
... Hesiod describes Earth as the mother of Heaven, the mountains, Time, Hyperion, and many of the elder gods (Theog ... Hesiod's account (Theog., 617– 735) of the piling up of the mountains by the assailants of the gods on Mt. Olympus. 37 ...
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... Hesiod's hundred-armed giant Aegaeon (Theog., 147) is described by Ovid (Met. II, 9–10) as clasping the vast backs of whales in his arms. 61. The flower is personified in allusion to Ovid's story of its origin in the metamorphosis of ...
... Hesiod's hundred-armed giant Aegaeon (Theog., 147) is described by Ovid (Met. II, 9–10) as clasping the vast backs of whales in his arms. 61. The flower is personified in allusion to Ovid's story of its origin in the metamorphosis of ...
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... Hesiod's Golden Age, when men were so good that Zeus changed them into immortal spirits (Works and Days, I I I-26). Vanity stands for all “the sins to which the creature was made subject” (Rom. viii, 20), and from which Milton says that ...
... Hesiod's Golden Age, when men were so good that Zeus changed them into immortal spirits (Works and Days, I I I-26). Vanity stands for all “the sins to which the creature was made subject” (Rom. viii, 20), and from which Milton says that ...
Contents
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Paradise Regained | 471 |
Samson Agonistes | 531 |
Prose | 595 |
Appendix | 1021 |
Index of Names | 1045 |
BACK COVER | 1060 |
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