First published in 1969. These nine lectures written by the distinguished scholar J. B. Leishman examines the various themes, context and structure of Miltons poetry, with particular focus on LAllegro, Il Penseroso and Lycidas. This title will be of great interest to students of John Milton and English Literature.
First published in 1969. These nine lectures written by the distinguished scholar J. B. Leishman examines the various themes, context and structure of Miltons poetry, with particular focus on LAllegro, Il Penseroso and Lycidas. This title will be of great interest to students of John Milton and English Literature.
Preface Geoffrey Tillotson; 1. The Young Milton 2. Some Remarks on Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Miltons Place in It 3. The Latin Poems 4. English Poems Written at Cambridge 5. Some Poems Written at Horton 6. LAllegro and Il Penseroso in Their Relation to Seventeenth-Century Poetry 7. Arcades 8. Comus 9. Lycidas; Appendix; Index