Lexicon to the English Poetical Works of John Milton (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Lexicon to the English Poetical Works of John Milton The purpose of the present work is to provide a means by which the student may readily find the signification of any word in the poetry of Milton. The chief aim has been that of definition, and every word in the poetry has been subjected to a careful examination. Almost every significant word in the vocabulary of Milton is filled with literal and figurative meanings that shade into each other and off into other and related senses; and each word is modified and varied in the shifting lights thrown on it by the context. This is perhaps truer of Milton than of any other English poet. The precise definition of words is, I am sure, impossible, because of their chameleonlike quality and their lack of exact correspondence to the ideas they represent. Yet I hold it wise at least to attempt, in so far as possible, to reinterpret in the medium of everyday English the lines of the poet who speaks in an even less transparent language. Since I recognize that such work must by its nature be more or less tentative, and hence lacking in finality, I do not expect to win assent to all my explanations of words; the reader will doubtless often see or feel some other shade of meaning to be dominant in a particular word. But when he disagrees with what I have written, he will often, I trust, be stimulated to search for himself the thought of the poet; and I could have no higher desire for the book than that it should be an incentive to the closer reading of Milton. That no one would nowadays read Paradise Lost for pleasure has to me been disproved by years spent in teaching the poetry of Milton to college classes. But for this pleasure assistance in the way of interpretation is often necessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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