ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xxi
... the most part about 1649 , but not printed till 1670. In it he used the materials collected for his abandoned epic on the story of King Arthur . MSS . at Trinity College1 , shew that exactly ninety LIFE OF MILTON . xxi.
... the most part about 1649 , but not printed till 1670. In it he used the materials collected for his abandoned epic on the story of King Arthur . MSS . at Trinity College1 , shew that exactly ninety LIFE OF MILTON . xxi.
Page xxii
... story of the lost Paradise began to assume prominence . Still , even when the subject was definitely chosen , the question of its treatment- dramatic or epic - remained . Milton contemplated the former . He even commenced work upon a ...
... story of the lost Paradise began to assume prominence . Still , even when the subject was definitely chosen , the question of its treatment- dramatic or epic - remained . Milton contemplated the former . He even commenced work upon a ...
Page xxix
... story : that of the sister lost in a wood , entrapped by a magician , and rescued by her brothers ; with the attendant incidents . This Milton owed , it is almost certain , to the Old Wives ' Tale ( 1595 ) of George Peele , the ...
... story : that of the sister lost in a wood , entrapped by a magician , and rescued by her brothers ; with the attendant incidents . This Milton owed , it is almost certain , to the Old Wives ' Tale ( 1595 ) of George Peele , the ...
Page xxxii
... Story of Sabrina . Milton's in- debtedness to Fletcher . Sabrina , whose intervention frees the im- prisoned lady and brings the Masque to a happy close . The source of this legend , which had been handled by other poets , was the ...
... Story of Sabrina . Milton's in- debtedness to Fletcher . Sabrina , whose intervention frees the im- prisoned lady and brings the Masque to a happy close . The source of this legend , which had been handled by other poets , was the ...
Page xxxiv
... story and logical development of dramatic motive , propriety of construction , studied and consistent character - drawing1 . These things lie outside the province of the Masque- writer , whose fancy plays unfettered in a land where ...
... story and logical development of dramatic motive , propriety of construction , studied and consistent character - drawing1 . These things lie outside the province of the Masque- writer , whose fancy plays unfettered in a land where ...
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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