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Lycidas by James Havard Thomas, bronze cast in collections of Aberdeen Art Gallery and Tate Britain "Lycidas" (/ ˈ l ɪ s ɪ d ə s /) is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy.
As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers that their gay wardrobe wear. When first the white thorn blows: Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep.
"Lycidas" is John Milton's great elegy for his friend Edward King, a fellow student at Cambridge who drowned in 1637. The poem was Milton's contribution to the 1638 memorial anthology that King's friends put together, Justa Edouardo King naufrago; Milton would reprint the poem in his later collection Poems by Mr. John Milton (1645).
As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear, When first the white-thorn blows; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear.
Apr 23, 2023 · Lycidas is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy. It first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies, entitled Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, dedicated to the memory of Edward King, friend of Milton's at Cambridge who drowned when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales in August 1637.
Eclogue 9 (Ecloga IX; Bucolica IX) is a pastoral poem by the Latin poet Virgil, one of his series of ten poems known as the Eclogues. This eclogue describes the meeting of two countrymen Lycidas and Moeris. [1] .
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John Milton’s masterful ‘Lycidas’ is a pastoral elegy for his recently deceased friend, a thesis on the purpose of epic verse, and a piercing examination of religious truth. Milton draws upon a wealth of Greek mythological and Christian references to transform a traditional pastoral elegy into a deeper exploration of the form.
