ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xxii
... original drafts of Arcades , Comus , Lycidas , and some of the minor poems , together with Milton's notes on the design of the long poem he meditated composing , and other less important papers . The MSS . were presented to Trinity by a ...
... original drafts of Arcades , Comus , Lycidas , and some of the minor poems , together with Milton's notes on the design of the long poem he meditated composing , and other less important papers . The MSS . were presented to Trinity by a ...
Page xxiii
... original design . In any case he must have commenced the second epic about the year 1665. Samson Agonistes appears to have been written a little later . The two poems were published together in 1671 . In giving this bare summary of ...
... original design . In any case he must have commenced the second epic about the year 1665. Samson Agonistes appears to have been written a little later . The two poems were published together in 1671 . In giving this bare summary of ...
Page xxviii
... original draft of the poem is among the MSS.2 at Cambridge ; and the Bridgewater manuscript , supposed to be the stage - copy from which the actors learned their parts , and believed to be in Lawes's hand- writing , also survives . All ...
... original draft of the poem is among the MSS.2 at Cambridge ; and the Bridgewater manuscript , supposed to be the stage - copy from which the actors learned their parts , and believed to be in Lawes's hand- writing , also survives . All ...
Page xxxiv
... significant omissions , made doubtless by Lawes , at the original performance . See notes on 195-225 , 737-755 . One passage , 779-806 , was an addition . progress of the story ; and worse , it strikes xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
... significant omissions , made doubtless by Lawes , at the original performance . See notes on 195-225 , 737-755 . One passage , 779-806 , was an addition . progress of the story ; and worse , it strikes xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
Page xxxix
... original performance survives , viz . the five numbers , " From the heavens , " , " " Sweet Echo , " " Sabrina fair , ” " " Back Shep- herds " and " Now my task . " In the last century most of Milton's minor poems were made to supply ...
... original performance survives , viz . the five numbers , " From the heavens , " , " " Sweet Echo , " " Sabrina fair , ” " " Back Shep- herds " and " Now my task . " In the last century most of Milton's minor poems were made to supply ...
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Adonis Æneid allusion Ben Jonson blank verse called Cambridge character charmed chastity Circe classical Comus crown dance daughter Earl of Bridgewater Echo Elder Brother Elizabethan enchanted English epithet Estrildis evil eyes Faerie Queene fair favourite Germ Glossary goddess gods hath Heaven hence Henry Wotton Homer honour Il Penseroso influence Italy Jonson King L'Allegro Lady Latin Lawes's legend Locrine Lord Lord Brackley Ludlow Castle Lycidas lyric Masque Masson metaphor Midsummer-Night's Dream Milton nature night noun nymph Odyssey original Paradise Lost passage pastoral Penseroso perhaps phrase piece pleasure poem poet poetic poetry probably Puritanism reference rhyme rhythm river Sabrina Sabrina fair Samson Agonistes says scene sense Shakespeare Shepheards Calender shepherd Sir Henry song Sonnet soul speaks Spenser Spirit stage-direction story sweet syllable Tempest Tennyson thou Thyrsis trochee verb virgin Virtue wood word writers youth