 | John A. Ramsaran - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 246 pages
...With other notes then to th' Orphean Lyre I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend,...Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe. And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that rowle in vain To find thy piercing ray,... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...With other notes than to th'Orphean Lyre I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend,...Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital Lamp. (3.1-22) Milton traces the Christian-Platonic history of a sunbeam. Light appears... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...With other notes then to th' Orphean Lyre I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent and up to reascend, Though hard and rare . . . (Ill, 13-21) The bird in this context is a metaphor for the narrator's double nature. Because... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...With other notes then to th' Orphean Lyre I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare ... [3.1,13-21] From this standpoint the first two books of Milton's poem come to represent an experience... | |
 | William Malin Porter - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 234 pages
...conjunction with the presentation of his own labors as a descent: With other notes than to the Orphean lyre I sung of Chaos and eternal Night, Taught by...descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare. l3.i7-2t) The Miltonic descent is an Orphean, as well as an Aenean, move: the poet, in other words,... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...flight, Through utter and through middle darkness borne, With other notes than to th' Orphean lyre314 I sung of Chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the Heavenly...venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, 20 Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not... | |
 | André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...With other notes then to ih'Orphean Lyre I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare: (IH. 13-21) Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averni [Averno]: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua... | |
 | John Martin Evans - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 220 pages
...With other notes than to th'Orphean lyre I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe. . . . (3.13-21) And from this point on, Milton writes as if he has been physically present in Hell,... | |
 | Eleanor Cook - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 352 pages
...which . . ." (262 and 232). I doubt that we would hear the Virgilian echo except for Milton: ". . . down / The dark descent, and up to reascend, / Though hard and rare" (Paradise Lost 3.19-21) and "Sad task and Hard" (ibid. 5.564). By 1850, Wordsworth decided to revise... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...while in my flight Through utter and through middle darkness borne With other notes than to the Orphean lyre* I sung of chaos and eternal night, Taught by...Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray,... | |
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Orphean lyre I sung of chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the heavenly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare. 
