Lycidas: The Tradition and the Poem

Adonis allegorical allusion Alpheus Apollo archetypal Arethuse artist beauty canzone Christian classical conventional criticism Damon Daphnis dead death diction domino jam domum impasti drowned E. M. W. Tillyard echoes eclogues Edward King elegiac emotional English Epitaphium Damonis essay F. T. Prince fame figure flock flowers Galilean lake Greek grief heaven human idyls images Italian jam non vacat John Milton Lament for Bion language Latin lines literary literature Lycidas lyric M. H. Abrams meaning metaphor Milton's Lycidas mind mourn Muse nature nymphs Orpheus pagan passage pastoral elegy pastoral imagery pastoral tradition pathetic fallacy pattern Peter Petrarch Phoebus poem poet poet's poetic poetry reader reference Renaissance rhyme Sannazaro sense Shepheardes Calender shepherd heeds sing song Spenser stanza stream structure style symbol tear thee theme Theocritus thing thou thought Thyrsis Tillyard tion two-handed engine University verse Virgil write