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The poetical works of John Milton.(Critical Essay)

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From: Leviathan
Date: 20020301
Author:Mitford, John

Volume I

ANNOTATION [front end paper]: C. Horn 1860

ANNOTATION [front fly leaf]: H. Melville, N.Y. 1849

ANNOTATION [front fly leaf]: 1868

ANNOTATION [back fly leaf]: In Bartas

The Life of Milton 
 
   p.xxx. 
 
   The beautiful 
   monody of Lycidas shows an intimate acquaintance with the Italian 
   metres; and to one poem, the Alcon (23) of Balth. Castiglione, 
   it is more peculiarly indebted for some of its imagery. It 
   discovers also Milton's familiarity with our elder poets, and 
   supported by the authority of his `Master Spenser,' (24) in similar 
   ...

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