ISBN: 9781152635388

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... A Biographical Introduction By Rufus Wilmot Griswold. In Two Volumes. Philadelphia: Herman Hooker. Text: Broadway Journal Sept. 27, 1845. Dr. Griswold deserves the thanks of his countrymen for what he has done here:--it certainly is no credit to us, either as republicans or reverers of the true and noble in Literature, that no edition of the Prose Works of John Milton has hitherto been issued in America. Independently of the subject-matter, his treatises are among the most remarkable ever written. Their mere style (we use the word in its widest sense) is absolutely unrivalled. It is a very difficult thing, indeed, to decide properly on the style of a period so remote as that of Milton; we are perpetually misled in our judgment, by the impossibility of identifying ourselves with the writers--of inducing a full sympathy with the circumstances which impelled them, and thus with the objects for which they wrote--the ends proposed in composition. In fact, it is only by the degree of its adjustment to the result intended, that any style can be justly commended as good or condemned as bad. But, holding in view this adjustment, and making the necessary allowances for lapses, effected through Time, in the language, we feel ourselves fully warranted in saying, that no man has ever surpassed, if, indeed, any man has ever equalled the author of the Areopagitica'' in purity--in force--in copiousness--in majesty--or, in what may be termed without the least exaggeration, a gorgeous magnificence of style. Some of his more directly controversial works rise at times into a species of lyrical rhapsody--divinely energetic--constituting for itself a department of composition which is neither prose nor poetry, but something with all the best qualities of... Edgar Allan Poe, Books, Fiction and Literature, The Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe (volume 8) Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1152635387

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ISBN: 9781152635388

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's web… More...

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 8; Original Publisher: T.Y. Crowell Books, Literary Collections~~American~~General, Complete-Works-of-Edgar-Allan-Poe~~Edgar-Allan-Poe, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1152635387

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