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Melville's Milton: a transcription of Melville's marginalia in his copy of the poetical works of John Milton.(Brief Article)

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From: Leviathan
Date: 20020301
Author:Grey, Robin; Robillard, Douglas

The poems collected in The Poetical Works of John Milton span Milton's career, from his earliest lyric poems, masque, and pastoral elegy, to Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, to his dramatic poem Samson Agonistes. The two-volume set also includes John Mitford's heavily-footnoted introduction, which details Milton's career, politics, and theological beliefs. Melville's annotations, underlinings, marginal scorings, Xs and checkings appear throughout the entire set and represent his reading on at least three dated occasions: 1849, 1860, and 1868. Our transcription of the marked ...

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