Milton's Astronomy

Автор: Thomas N. Orchard
Издательство: Longmans, Green, And CO.
Страниц: 326
Год: 1913
Размер: 8,82 МБ

MANY able and cultured writers in expatiating on the poetic genius of Milton have favoured us with elegant dissertations appreciative of the charm and sublimity of his harmonious verse. But, in discoursing on Milton's astronomy, the Author has ventured to contribute a volume, to some extent based upon an earlier work devoted to the same subject, which, whilst containing a new interpretation of certain passages in the ' Paradise Lost/ and upholding views differing from those expressed by the ablest commentators, may yet, he hopes, be interesting and instructive to the general reader. Perhaps the choicest passages in Milton's poems are associated with astronomical allusion, and it is chiefly to the exposition and illustration of these that this volume is devoted.