Comus, L'allegro, Il Penseroso, And Lycidas, With Other of Milton's Shorter Poems;
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What does concern him is the beauty of the verse, both in the dramatic and lyrical portions, and the beauty of the imagery and phras- ing. These are a delight in themselves and afford also an admirable discipline in poetic taste. Moreover, the poem enforces the noblest ideals of virtue. Rare indeed is it that in a poem with such a theme, in passages demanding didactic 98 MILTON'S SHORTER POEMS methods that are flatly at variance with poetic inspiration, and with the proper agencies of poetic ex...pression, the sustained elevation of the poet is such that he hardly perceptibly flags in his level flight. Title. In the MSS., Lawes's edition, and the 1645 and 1673 editions supervised by Milton, the play is merely entitled A Masque. The title of the 1645 edition, for example, reads, "A Mask of the same Author presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, before the Earl of Bridgewater, then President of Wales. Anno Dom. 1645." The Persons. — Attendant Spirit. The messenger of Jove sent to attend the Lady in her peril; an adaptation by the poet of the Christian conception of a guardian angel to his mythological setting.
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