Milton's Lycidas: The Tradition and the PoemC. A. Patrides University of Missouri Press, 1983 - 370 pages |
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Page 74
... sense and make metre at the same time , but in the perform- ance he will sacrifice one or the other ; the consequence will be good sense and lame metre , or good metre and nonsense ; if he is a man of interests and convictions , the ...
... sense and make metre at the same time , but in the perform- ance he will sacrifice one or the other ; the consequence will be good sense and lame metre , or good metre and nonsense ; if he is a man of interests and convictions , the ...
Page 91
... sense of the natural scope and magnificence of the universe as God's creation , encompassing the depth of hell and sea , the height of heaven and sky . Thus the special vocabulary of fresh , high , pure , sacred , new , fountain , hill ...
... sense of the natural scope and magnificence of the universe as God's creation , encompassing the depth of hell and sea , the height of heaven and sky . Thus the special vocabulary of fresh , high , pure , sacred , new , fountain , hill ...
Page 147
... sense that she cannot see they are about to burst into a blaze of light , and could not see the blaze even if it had already flared forth . Better to eschew the light altogether , therefore , and " sport with Amaryllis in the shade ...
... sense that she cannot see they are about to burst into a blaze of light , and could not see the blaze even if it had already flared forth . Better to eschew the light altogether , therefore , and " sport with Amaryllis in the shade ...
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allusion answer appears associated beauty become beginning bring called Christian classical close conventional course critical dead death eclogue effect English essay experience expression fact fame feeling figure final flower follows force give heaven human idea imagery images important interpretation John kind King lament language later leaves less lines literary literature look Lost Lycidas meaning metaphor Milton mind mourn move movement Muse nature never once opening Orpheus Paradise passage pastoral elegy pattern perhaps Peter poem poet poetic poetry possible present question reader reference relation rhyme seems sense setting shepherd sing song sound speak speaker speech stream structure Studies suggest swain symbol tear theme Theocritus things thought tion tradition true truth turn University verse Virgil vision voice whole writing