This thoughtful collection of John Milton’s finest poetry marks the quatercentenary of the poet’s birth in 1608. It is read by several of Britain’s foremost classical actors, including Anton Lesser, Samantha Bond and Derek Jacobi. Milton’s uncompromising views set him firmly on the side of Cromwell, putting his life in danger when the Stuart monarchy was restored. But he is now remembered for Paradise Lost and a strong collection of other poetry which influenced successive generations.
Strict Stress-Meter in English Poetry Compared with German and Russian
This book investigates a verse form never befor identified by Western Scholars: the strict stress-meter. The main object of research, the English strict stress-meter, is typologically compared with its German and Russian counterparts.
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, cartoons, satire and poetry published by Conde Nast Publications.
The editor of this book, and the ideal teacher to whom he hopes to be useful, need not agree on everything, but they will share two assumptions: (I) that such general notions as the student is going to acquire about poetry he should acquire from actual experience with poems, not from a pedagogical system; and consequently (2) that the poems he has experience with, even at the beginning, should be worth encountering for their own sake.
This text is intended for students and readers of classical and other literature. Topics include: Greek hexameter poetry; rhetoric; Greek literature under the Romans; Latin literature before 70 BC; poetry c.40 BC to the death of Tiberius; and Latin literature after c.150.
