and the Christianised Pastoral Elegy Abstract It is a critical commonplace to say that the death of Edward King is less the subject ofLycidasthan the possible death ‘ere his prime’ of Milton himself, or, more broadly, the death of the young poet before he has accomplished what his gifts ...
pastoral poetry, and more particularly in the tradition of the pastoral elegy as exhibited in the ancient Greek Lament for Bion by Moschus. The poet is spoken of as a shepherd. But Milton introduces the innovation of identifying the Christian idea of shepherd (pastor) as meaning priest. In a...
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whose response to personal sorrow ultimately opens up his path to epic poetry, as integral to Milton's development. The poem Keats composed about seeing Fingal's Cave, 'Not Aladin magian', is in thoughtful dialogue with Milton's pastoral elegy, and provides a key to understanding Keats's app...
Milton’s contemporary at the University of Cambridge who had drowned in a shipwreck in August 1637. The poem mourns the loss of a virtuous and promising young man about to embark upon a career as a clergyman. Adopting the conventions of the classicalpastoralelegy (Lycidas was a shepherd in...