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Illumine, what is low raise and support, / That to the height of this great argument / I may assert eternal Providence, / And justify the ways of God to men. |
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| 1608–74, English poet, b. London, one of the greatest poets of the English language.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  m l´t n from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- Complete Poems Written in English
Paradise Lost and Regained—among the greatest epic poems of any age—combined with the full array of Milton’s English works. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. IV.
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- Areopagitica
Responds to attempts of the day to “license,” or ban, religious and political writings. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. III, Part 3.
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- Tractate on Education
A personal epistle aimed at the training of youth in the classic and poetic traditions as well as the future of scientific studies. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. III, Part 4.
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- Bartlett’s Milton Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Milton, John, 39818 to 40007
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- ANTHOLOGIZED VERSE
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- Arcades (excerpt) (OBEV); At a Solemn Music (Gold); At a Solemn Musick (OBEV); Comus i (excerpt) (OBEV); Comus ii (excerpt) (OBEV); Comus iii (excerpt) (OBEV); Comus iv (excerpt) (OBEV); Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity (OBEV); Il Penseroso (Gold); Il Penseroso (OBEV); L'Allegro (Gold); L'Allegro (OBEV); Light (OBEV); Lycidas (Gold); Lycidas (OBEV); Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity (Gold); On His Blindness (Gold); On His Blindness (OBEV); On His Deceased Wife (OBEV); On Shakespear. 1630 (Meta); On the Late Massacre in Piemont (Gold); On the Morning of Christs Nativity (Meta); On Time (OBEV); Samson Agonistes i (excerpt) (OBEV); Samson Agonistes ii (excerpt) (OBEV); To Cyriack Skinner (Gold); To Cyriack Skinner (OBEV); To Mr. Lawrence (Gold); To Mr. Lawrence (OBEV); To the Lady Margaret Ley (Gold); When the Assault Was Intended to the City (Gold)
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- WRITINGS ABOUT MILTON
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- “Milton”
Chapter by George Saintsbury with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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