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This is Volume XII of the G.Wilson Knight collected works and includes essays and commentary on the works of Spenser, Milton's prose and poetry and Swift. It concludes with a essays looking at Byron's poetry and dramatic prose.
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Index
Material in footnotes is indexed simply under the numeral of the page on which the note occurs, without further designation
Addison, Joseph, 164, 276
Dream of Judgement, The, 164
Golden Scales, The, 164
Roger de Coverley, 164
Royal Exchange, The, 164
Vision of Mirza, The, 164
Westminster Abbey, 164
Aeschylus, 283–4
Oresteia, 281
Alexander the Great, 120
Allegra, see Biron
Alpers, Paul J., xv
Amurath, 286
Anacreon, 251
Antony (Marcus Antonius), 184, 227
Apollo Belvedere, The, 238
Arimanes, see Devil
Ariosto, 194
Aristotle, 8, 12
Arnold, Matthew,
Culture and Anarchy, 176
Arthur, King, 59 (‘Uther’s son’), 71–2, 146
Ascham, Roger,
The Scholemaster, 275
Astarte, ix, 197–9
Bacon, Lord, 255
The Advancement of Learning, 16
Baillie, Rev. Robert (‘Scotch what d’ye call’), 102
Ball, Patricia M., xv
Baynes, H. G., 146
Becket, 107
Behmen (Boehme), Jacob, 273
Berry, Francis, xii, xiv, 26, 105, 267
Galloping Centaur, The, xiv, 72, 145
Iron Christ, The, xiv, 72
Morant Bay, xiv
Poetry and the Physical Voice, xiv
Spain, 1939, xiv, 145
Biron, Allegra (Byron’s illegitimate daughter), 281...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- PREFATORY NOTES
- Dedication
- I The Spenserian Fluidity
- II Milton: the Poetry
- III Chariot of Wrath: on Milton’s Proseand Poetry
- IV Swift
- V Byron: the Poetry
- VI Byron’s Dramatic Prose
- INDEX