Comus, L'allegro, IL Penseroso, and Lycidas
Comus, L'allegro, IL Penseroso, and Lycidas

Author: John Milton

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Published: 2015-07-10

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781331120421

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Excerpt from Comus, L'allegro, IL Penseroso, and Lycidas: With Other of Milton's Shorter Poems The shorter poems of Milton that make up this volume comprise a group of poems among the most precious in English verse. They are classics in our literature, and as such must take their place wherever English poetry is read or studied. Milton is our most difficult poet, and calls for study; yet these poems are his least difficult work, and offer the student, therefore, not only their own worth as poetry, but also the easiest approach to the study and love of Milton. It is the aim of this volume to help the teacher (who counts more than any book) not alone in preparing students for examination, but also in leading them to a true appreciation of Milton's poetry, in and for itself. To this end several poems, not usually required in the examinations for college entrance, have been included in the volume. The notes, it is hoped, will prove full, but not over-full. Needed help is given in regard to obsolete words, in illustration of Milton's borrowings, in explanation of his allusions, metaphors, the more difficult points in his prosody and (a neglected subject) his rimes; but non-essentials have been resolutely omitted. It is always a pleasing duty to acknowledge one's indebtedness to one's predecessors - who, in the present case, form a long line from the early editors such asWarton, Todd, and Newton, to the veritable host of modernwitnesses, moreparticularly Masson, Verity, and especially Osgood, whoseadmirable Classical Mythology of Milton's English Poems, has imposed a lasting obligation upon every student of Milton. Due credit, it is believed, has been given in all cases, except such matters as have become commonplaces of Miltonic criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Comus; L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, and Lycidas, with Other of Milton's Shorter Poems
Comus; L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, and Lycidas, with Other of Milton's Shorter Poems

Author: John Milton

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9781230285184

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES I--ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY Milton began this Ode on Christmas Day, 1629. The odes on The Passion and The Circumcision were probably intended to accompany it. It is significant to find the poet selecting such themes already in his youth. This Ode, or Hymn, the first of Milton's great poems, is a wonderful achievement both in its conception and lyrical quality for one so young, just twenty-one, and still at the University. Its careful elaboration is too marked; like L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, it was doubtless more or less of a set exercise, and the poet had not yet learned to perfect his art to the point where it conceals itself. The tendency in it, also, to the use of conceit, or extravagant metaphor, characteristic of the age, and of Cambridge particularly, is so marked that it has been called a piece of frozen Marinism (referring to the assumed influence of the Italian, Marini, in promoting such conceit). But, none the less, it is one of the most beautiful poems in the language. We cannot do better than to recall here Verity's fine appreciation of it. "Milton reveals here many of those qualities which have won for Paradise Lost a place apart in our literature. The Hymn is a foretaste of the epic. We have the same learning, full for the classical scholar of far-reaching suggestion: the same elevation and inspired enthusiasm of tone: even (to note a small but not valueless detail) the same happy device of weaving in the narrative names that raise in us a vague thrill of awe, a sense of things remote and great and mysterious: above all, the same absolute grandeur of style. No other English poet rivals Milton in a certain majesty of music, a dignity of sound so irresistible that the only thing to which we can...

Comus, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, and Lycidas, with Other of Milton's Shorter Poems;
Comus, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, and Lycidas, with Other of Milton's Shorter Poems;

Author: Clarence Griffin Child

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-24

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781359491206

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