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Machine generated contents note: Introduction Sarah Haggarty; Part I. Life, Works, and Reception; 1. Life Leo Damrosch; 2. Networks Jon Mee; 3. Engraving Mark Crosby; 4. Illuminated Books David Worrall; 5. Manuscripts Sarah Haggarty; 6. Book Illustration Luisa Cale; 7. Painting Martin Myrone; 8. Early Reception Sibylle Erle and Keri Davies; 9. Late Reception Jason Whittaker; 10. Editing and Editions Morris Eaves; Part II. Form, Genre, and Mode; 11. Comedy Fred Parker; 12. Prophecy Ian Balfour; 13. Rhythm Derek Attridge; 14. Songs Steve Newman; 15. Sound Michael Hurley; 16. Sublimity David Baulch; 17. System, Myth, and Symbol Tilottama Rajan; Part III. Creative Cross-Currents; 18. The Bible Stephen Prickett; 19. Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare David Fuller; 20. Milton G. A. Rosso; 21. Eighteenth Century and Romanticism David Duff; 22. Byron Jerome McGann; 23. Pre-Raphaelites and Aesthetes Elizabeth Helsinger; 24. Yeats, Eliot, and Auden Edward Larrissy; 25. Whitman, Crane, and the Beats Linda Freedman; Part IV. History, Society, and Culture; 26. Animals Kurt Fosso; 27. Antiquarianism Noah Heringman; 28. Education and Childhood Louise Joy; 29. Empiricism Nicholas M. Williams; 30. Life Sciences Denise Gigante; 31. London Saree Makdisi; 32. Money Matthew Rowlinson; 33. Moravianism Alexander Regier; 34. Mysticism Laura Quinney; 35. Nationalism and Imperialism Julia M. Wright; 36. Sex, Sexuality, Gender Susan Matthews; 37. War and Revolution Andrew Lincoln; 38. (Without) Sympathy Steven Goldsmith. - "In this Picture, believing with Milton, the ancient British History, Mr. B. has done, as all the ancients did, and as all the moderns, who are worthy of fame, given the historical fact in its poetical vigour; so as it always happens, and not in that dull way that some Historians pretend, who being weakly organized themselves, cannot see either miracle or prodigy; all is to them a full round of probabilities and possibilities; but the history of all times and places, is nothing else but improbabilities and impossibilities; what we should say, was impossible if we did not see it always before our eyes"-- "In this Picture, believing with Milton, the ancient British History, Mr. B. has done, as all the ancients did, and as all the moderns, who are worthy of fame, given the historical fact in its poetical vigour; so as it always happens, and not in that dull way that some Historians pretend, who being weakly organized themselves, cannot see either miracle or prodigy; all is to them a full round of probabilities and possibilities; but the history of all times and places, is nothing else but improbabilities and impossibilities; what we should say, was impossible if we did not see it always before our eyes"--
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