Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

6/1/1972 - 8/31/1973

Funding Totals

$22,521.00 (approved)
$22,521.00 (awarded)


A Variorum Commentary of the Poems of John Milton

FAIN: RO-11307-72

George Washington University (Washington, DC 20052-0001)
Edward Weismiller (Project Director: June 1972 to present)

To supply prosodic notes on all lines from Milton's poem in English which require formal explanation; these notes with a long introduction on Milton's prosody and versification will comprise the final volume of the commentary. Also, PI will provide variorum essays evaluating other critics' discussions of the prodosy of his English poems.