ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page v
... poet's return from Italy in 1639 ; the second at the Restoration in 1660 , when release from the fetters of politics enabled him to remind the world that he was a great poet , if not a great controversialist ; the third is brought to a ...
... poet's return from Italy in 1639 ; the second at the Restoration in 1660 , when release from the fetters of politics enabled him to remind the world that he was a great poet , if not a great controversialist ; the third is brought to a ...
Page vii
... poet's return from Italy in 1639 ; the second at the Restoration in 1660 , when release from the fetters of politics enabled him to remind the world that he was a great poet , if not a great controversialist ; the third is brought to a ...
... poet's return from Italy in 1639 ; the second at the Restoration in 1660 , when release from the fetters of politics enabled him to remind the world that he was a great poet , if not a great controversialist ; the third is brought to a ...
Page viii
... poet owed the love of music of which we see frequent indications in the poems . Realising , too , that in his son ... poets , notably Spenser ; it is reasonable to assume that he had not a little to do with the encouragement and guidance ...
... poet owed the love of music of which we see frequent indications in the poems . Realising , too , that in his son ... poets , notably Spenser ; it is reasonable to assume that he had not a little to do with the encouragement and guidance ...
Page x
... poet , who chose to spend seven years at Cambridge , owed to her more than Milton the fierce controversialist admitted or knew . A poet he had proved himself before leaving the University in 1632. The short but exquisite ode At a Solemn ...
... poet , who chose to spend seven years at Cambridge , owed to her more than Milton the fierce controversialist admitted or knew . A poet he had proved himself before leaving the University in 1632. The short but exquisite ode At a Solemn ...
Page xi
... poet in the same degree , even as the very breath of his being ; learning , too , all of art , especially music , that contemporary England could furnish ; wresting from modern languages and literatures their last secrets ; and ...
... poet in the same degree , even as the very breath of his being ; learning , too , all of art , especially music , that contemporary England could furnish ; wresting from modern languages and literatures their last secrets ; and ...
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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