Milton's Minor Poems

allusion anti-masque Arcades beautiful beginning Ben Jonson called Cambridge characteristic Christian classical Comus conceit contemporaries dancing Daphnis death declares diction divine Donne Donne's doth Eclogue edition elaborate Elizabethan English poetry example F. S. Boas Faerie Queene Fletcher flowers Giles Fletcher Greek heaven Herbert Grierson Il Penseroso imitation ingenious insist Italian John Milton Jonson kind of poetry King L'Allegro later Latin lines literary Lycidas masquers melancholy memorable merely Milton's poems Muse Nativity Ode nature night nymphs original Orpheus Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passage pastoral drama pastoral elegy Penseroso perhaps personification Phineas Fletcher phrase Platonic pleasures poetic praise Professor Wright regarded remarked romantic Satyr seems sense seventeenth seventeenth-century poets Shakespeare Shakespearean shepherd sing Solemn Musick song sonnet soul Spenser Spenserian spirit stanza style Theocritus things Thomas Warton thou tion tradition translation Trinity manuscript verse Virgil Warton word write written wrote