Milton's Minor Poems

allusion Arcades Arethusa beautiful beginning Ben Jonson called Cambridge characteristic Christian classical Comus conceit contemporaries Daphnis death declares diction digression Donne Donne's doth Eclogue edition Elizabethan English poetry example F. S. Boas Faerie Queene flowers Greek heaven Il Penseroso imitation ingenious insist John Milton Jonson kind King L'Allegro Lament for Bion later Latin Leishman lines literary Lycidas masque masquers melancholy memorable merely Milton's poems Mincius Muse Nativity Ode nature Neæra night nymphs original Orpheus Ovid Paradise Regained partly passage pastoral elegy Penseroso perhaps personification Phineas Fletcher phrase Platonic poetic praise reading regarded remarked Satyrs seems sense seventeenth-century poets Shakespeare Shakespearean shepherd shorter poems sing Solemn Musick song sonnet soul Spenser Spenserian spirit stanza strew suggested to Milton sweet tears Theocritus things Thomas Warton thou tion tradition translation Trinity manuscript verse Virgil Virgilian Warton word write written wrote