A Reader's Guide to John MiltonMarjorie Nicolson—one of the foremost authorities on Milton—examines Milton's work, beginning with the famous Minor Poems, "L'Allegro," "II Penseroso," "Comus" (and "Arcades"), and "Lycides." She explores Milton's middle years, when he was diverted from poetry to become Latin Secretary under Oliver Cromwell. Finally, she looks at the great poems, including a book-by-book analysis of Paradise Lost and a careful reading of Milton's poetic "closet drama," Samson Agonistes. |
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Page 69
... theme of most masques was the theme of Comus : the triumph of Virtue over Vice . There must be a villain , representing Vice in one form or another , with such a " rabble rout " as that of Comus , who could " with goat feet dance the ...
... theme of most masques was the theme of Comus : the triumph of Virtue over Vice . There must be a villain , representing Vice in one form or another , with such a " rabble rout " as that of Comus , who could " with goat feet dance the ...
Page 82
... theme " and " the moral theme , " a compromise that failed , since Comus is neither masque nor drama . There have 82 JOHN MILTON.
... theme " and " the moral theme , " a compromise that failed , since Comus is neither masque nor drama . There have 82 JOHN MILTON.
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... theme of Comus , as I have said , is the basic theme of a majority of English masques , the triumph of Virtue over Vice . Comus , I insist , was a masque . A masque was what Lawes had commissioned and he would have been the first to ...
... theme of Comus , as I have said , is the basic theme of a majority of English masques , the triumph of Virtue over Vice . Comus , I insist , was a masque . A masque was what Lawes had commissioned and he would have been the first to ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid appear Areopagitica basic begins Belial Biblical blind Book XI called Cambridge character Chorus Christ Christian classical climax Comus Council Scene Creation critics Dalilah dark death deity deliberately Diodati drama earth elegy English epic Eve's eyes fallen angels familiar father feel Genesis Greek hear Heaven Hell Il Penseroso implied Italian John Milton King L'Allegro Lady later Latin Lawes learned light lines living Ludlow Castle Lycidas Mammon masque memory Milton wrote mind modern Moloch mood Muse Nativity Ode Nature pagan Pandemonium Paradise Lost Paradise Regained paraphrase particularly passage Penseroso phrase Pindar poem poet poetry Prologue Psalms Puritan Raphael Reason Renaissance rhyme rises Samson Agonistes Satan says seems sestet shepherd sing song sonnet sound speech Spenser Spirit stanza suggested temptation thee theme thou Tillyard tion tradition University verse word write written young youth