Milton's Minor Poems

allusion already appeared beautiful beginning bring called century characteristic Christian classical comparison Comus conceit consider continually dancing death described diction distinct Donne Donne's earlier earth edition elegy Elizabethan English epigrams example expression fact fair flowers follows hand human imitation ingenious insist interesting Italy Jonson kind King L'Allegro Lament later Latin less light lines live Lycidas manner manuscript masque means melancholy mention merely Milton mind Muse Nativity nature never Nevertheless night occurs original partly passage pastoral Penseroso perhaps phrase Platonic pleasures poem poetic poetry poets possible present probably published regarded remarked remembered seems sense seventeenth-century Shakespeare shepherd sing sometimes song sonnet soul speak Spenser spirit stanza style suggested things thought tradition translation true various verse Virgil Warton whole write written wrote