Milton's Minor PoemsRoutledge, 2019 M01 3 - 364 pages First published in 1969. These nine lectures written by the distinguished scholar J. B. Leishman examines the various themes, context and structure of Milton’s poetry, with particular focus on L’Allegro, Il Penseroso and Lycidas. This title will be of great interest to students of John Milton and English Literature. |
Contents
The Latin poems | |
English poems written at Cambridge | |
Some poems written at Horton | |
seventeenthcentury poetry | |
Arcades | |
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