Milton’s poetry is one of the glories of English literature, and yet it owes everything to Milton’s widespread knowledge of other languages: he knew ten, wrote in four, and translated from five. In Milton’s Languages, John K. Hale first examines Milton’s language-related arts in verse-composition, translations, annotations of Greek poets, Latin prose and political polemic, giving all relevant texts both in the original and in translation.
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Milton’s Languages: The Impact of Multilingualism on Style by John K. Hale (Engl
Milton’s poetry is one of the glories of the English language, and yet it owes everything to Milton’s widespread knowledge of other languages: he knew ten, wrote in four, and translated from five. In Milton’s Languages, John K. Hale first examines Milton’s language-related arts in verse-composition, translations, annotations of Greek poets, Latin prose and political polemic, giving all relevant texts in the original and in translation.
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Milton’s Languages: The Impact of Multilingualism on Style by John K. Hale (Engl
Introduction: Milton’s languages in the context of Renaissance multilingualism; Part I. Milton’s Exercising of his Languages: 1. The multilingual self presented in Milton’s poems (1645); 2. Milton’s arts of language: translating and philology; 5.
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Milton’s Languages by John K. Hale – 9780521022378
ISBN-13: 9780521022378, 978-0521022378. Milton’s poetry is one of the glories of the English language, and yet it owes everything to Milton’s widespread knowledge of other languages: he knew ten, wrote in four, and translated from five.