ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xii
... pieces- lyric verse ; L'Allegro , Il Penseroso , Arcades , Comus its relation to contem- and Lycidas - are not all certain ; but pro- porary life . bably each was composed at Horton before 1638. We must speak of them elsewhere . Here we ...
... pieces- lyric verse ; L'Allegro , Il Penseroso , Arcades , Comus its relation to contem- and Lycidas - are not all certain ; but pro- porary life . bably each was composed at Horton before 1638. We must speak of them elsewhere . Here we ...
Page xxiv
... piece on " The New Forcers of Conscience " ) , five of which were written in Italian , probably during the time of his travels in Italy , 1638-9 . Ten sonnets were printed in the edition of 1645 , the last of them being that entitled ...
... piece on " The New Forcers of Conscience " ) , five of which were written in Italian , probably during the time of his travels in Italy , 1638-9 . Ten sonnets were printed in the edition of 1645 , the last of them being that entitled ...
Page xxvi
... piece early in 1634 . " Comus . " It had to be ready by the autumn ; and time would be required for the setting of the music , and for all the preparations incidental to the representation of an unusually long Masque . The spring 66 ...
... piece early in 1634 . " Comus . " It had to be ready by the autumn ; and time would be required for the setting of the music , and for all the preparations incidental to the representation of an unusually long Masque . The spring 66 ...
Page xxix
... piece ( i.e. Peele's play ) exhibits , among other parallel incidents , two Brothers wandering in quest of their Sister , whom an Enchanter had imprisoned . This magician had learned his art from his mother Meroe , as Comus had been ...
... piece ( i.e. Peele's play ) exhibits , among other parallel incidents , two Brothers wandering in quest of their Sister , whom an Enchanter had imprisoned . This magician had learned his art from his mother Meroe , as Comus had been ...
Page xxx
... piece , Comus , introduces The cha- racter of Comus , the magician . • another element in the story . He is in all essentials the creation of Milton . In classical Greek μos signifies ' revel ' or ' revelling- band . ' The word koμos ...
... piece , Comus , introduces The cha- racter of Comus , the magician . • another element in the story . He is in all essentials the creation of Milton . In classical Greek μos signifies ' revel ' or ' revelling- band . ' The word koμos ...
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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