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	Lycidas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name "Lycidas" occurs in Virgil and was considered a typically Doric name appropriate for the genre, and is a common shepherd's name used in the pastoral mode.
		The topic of the poem is a shepherd who mourns his drowned friend, Lycidas, first alluding to the immortal fame of a poet (King had also written verse, but not with particular distinction, Milton is using the occasion for much more general sentiments not necessarily directed at King personally).
		Then, the metaphor of "shepherd" for priests is explored, King and Milton were both preparing to become ministers, and the death of one good shepherd mourned as a severe loss to the flock, i.e.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lycidas (608 words)

	Milton: Lycidas - Notes
		Lycidas is a pastoral elegy, a genre initiated by Theocritus, also put to famous use by Virgil and Spenser.
		Christopher Kendrick asserts that one's reading of Lycidas would be improved by treating the poem anachronistically, that is, as if it was one of the most original pastoral elegies.
		Lawrence Lipking asserts that the angel is in fact Lycidas, who is looking not to where he drowned but to his destination, Ireland.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~milton/reading_room/lycidas/notes.shtml (1948 words)

	[EMLS 2.3 (December 1996): 3.1-21] Ay me: Selfishness and Empathy in Lycidas
		Lycidas has been notably missing from these lines, but now the speaker demonstrates empathy with "we," thereby joining the interests of "he" with those of "I." Thus we read "For we were nurst upon the self-same hill" (l.
		One of the concerns in the paragrammatic structures of "Lycidas" is Lycidas.
		He is simultaneously mourning for Lycidas and Lycidas' lost talent, and demonstrating an uncomfortable awareness that his own promise is mortal, vulnerable, and as yet unfulfilled.
	www.shu.ac.uk /emls/02-3/grahmilt.html (4067 words)

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		In this way, Lycidas both addresses the subject of being a poet in a life doomed by death and at the same time shows the triumphant glory of a Christian life, one in which even the demise of the poet himself holds brighter promises of eternal heavenly joy.
		Also, since "Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime" (Milton 8), the narrator has to "pluck [the] berries" of these plants "with forced fingers rude," long "before the mellowing year" when they are ripe (3-5).
		Adds Tayler: "Lycidas is so constructed that as a poem it does exactly what Lycidas himself is described as doing," sinking in order to rise once again triumphant over a finite world that could so violently rob him of his young life (314).
	athena.english.vt.edu /~exlibris/essays99/vkmilton.htm (3665 words)

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		"Lycidas" is a poem that tries to come to terms with death while simultaneously trying to map out the purpose of man on earth.
		In "Lycidas," the Pilot's two keys are fashioned of "metals twain," and each has its function: "The Golden opes, the Iron shuts amain" (110-111).
		All quotations from "Lycidas" are taken from this edition and cited by line in the text.
	www.wbu.edu /b/b06/MLAsample.doc (2556 words)

	Hausarbeiten.de: The poem Lycidas in James Joyce's Ulysses - Hauptseminararbeit. Seminararbeiten, Diplomarbeiten, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Milton’s poem “Lycidas”, which is a pastoral lamentation of the deceased Edward King, fellow student to Milton, is cited in the classroom-scene in the second chapter on page 30 and 31.
		The surroundings of the “Lycidas” quotes is interspersed with allusions to some of the central issues of “Ulysses”.
		The subject of dying is another thing that connects “Lycidas” to “Ulysses”, only that Milton laments a young friend who died a sudden and unexpected death, while Stephen’s mother was already of a considerable age and died from illness, not from an accident.
	www.hausarbeiten.de /faecher/hausarbeit/anl/25946.html (3878 words)

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		To return to "Lycidas," the poem is called a monody, or a "dirge sung by a single" (Abrams 1420).
		In "Lycidas," the narratee is, to a large extent, the "thankless Muse," the infanticidal mother of Orpheus who kills her son by ignoring him.
		From the loss of Lycidas to the "shepherd's ear" to his anointment as the "Genius" of the shore," the narrator pokes the dynamics of anxiety and public display of remorse.
	www.english.ilstu.edu /strickland/215/sample/mhmdo.html (2361 words)

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		He begins early with the line, "I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,/ And with forced fingers rude." I see this as he is forcing himself to deal with his grief, and his process of dealing is the elegy.
		In Lycidas, nature is question and that is all.
		In the end, you grieve for both, but compared, Lycidas seems more like losing your dog and Keats' death is the death of a god.
	spider.georgetowncollege.edu /english/burch/eng478/_disc1/000000b3.htm (530 words)

	[EMLS 7.2 (September, 2001]: 5.1-3 Ovid's Rivers and the Naming of Milton's Lycidas
		In choosing "Lycidas" as the pseudonym for Edward King, Milton was clearly influenced by various pastoral eclogues, especially those of Theocritus, Virgil, and the Italian Sannazaro, in which the figure of Lycidas plays a prominent role.
		This "second birth" of Lycidas into another world--"the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love" (177)--parallels that of the river Lycus, submerging and resurfacing.
		The pollutions of the poem are not absolved by Lycidas, but his potential relation to the river Lycus, and by extension Alpheus and Arethusa, suggests a noble integrity around which the diverse work coheres.
	www.shu.ac.uk /emls/07-2/browovid.htm (914 words)

	John Milton
		Lycidas is a lament for a dead shepherd in form.
		The speaker is another poet, who mourns for Lycidas because of what a good shepherd he was.
		But the subject of Lycidas quickly shifts away from a celebration of King and a reflection on the fruitlessness of his death (l.
	faculty.winthrop.edu /kosterj/ENGL201/miltonnotes.htm (1423 words)

	Lycidas -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		When John Milton was asked to write an elegy for Edward King, who had drowned in a shipwreck in 1637, he created the poem Lycidas.
		The poem mourns the loss of a virtuous and promising young man who was about to begin his career as a clergyman.
		Milton wrote Lycidas in November 1637, and it was published in a collection of poems in memory of King in 1638.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9315671 (472 words)

	Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900: Milton's two poets. (voices in John Milton's 'Lycidas')@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Milton's 'Lycidas' is a monody in a single voice, but a second voice unexpectedly surfaces toward the end.
		This may be attributed to Milton's lack of command of his medium, an imperfection in his art.
		One is impersonal, honoring Iris postulates, while the other takes the wish for the deed and evades them.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:15383381&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (224 words)

	Death Literature - Lycidas by Milton
		Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
		Now, Lycidas, the Shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore, In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
		Thus sang the uncouth Swain to the oaks and rills, While the still Morn went out with sandals grey: He touched the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay: And now the sun had stretched out all the hills, And now was dropt into the western bay.
	www.alsirat.com /silence/literature/mil01.html (1061 words)

	IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"The multiple speakers and topics of Milton's 'Lycidas,' the deliberate and unreconcilable contradictions and ambiguities ofthe poem, are confirmed by linguistic analysis.
		According to Susumo Kuno's empathy theory, while speakers tend to express empathy toward themselves, numerous techniques are available to modify sentence structure and thus the natural selfishness of language.
		"Lycidas inserts itself into 'Western' textual history and cultural norms in a similar way:elegy's fictions envelop the bare facts of loss and we are faced with coexistences of themythic and the real, the past and the present.
	www.ipl.org:3000 /div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?ti=lyc-111 (392 words)

	§13. "Lycidas". V. Milton. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: ...
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Cambridge History > Cavalier and Puritan > Milton > Lycidas
		In Lycidas, the delight reaches an even higher pitch.
		For once, there is no need to quarrel even with such an apparent hyperbole as Pattison’s “high-water mark of English poetry”—especially as high-water mark is not a thing that can only once be reached.
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		One part of the case here is that Lycidas actually enacts and records a decision on Milton’s part to change his life—to leave his numbers and studies languishing on his father’s estate and move out into the real world of work and politics.
		There is evidence to suggest, though, that in the very early 40s Milton was meditating and intending more major poetic forms than he’d used previously, and that he was unsatisfied with what he found he had in him.
		The coherence of the enterprise is underscored by a brief concluding chapter on the “return of the Miltonic moment” at the end of Milton’s career, in Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes (the comments on the latter poem are particularly trenchant).
	www.samla.org /sar/kendri64-3.html (1194 words)

	The Council
		“Then Lycidas, one of the Councilors, said that it seemed best to him to receive the offer brought to them by Murychides and lay it before the People [that is, the Assembly — CWB].
		There was much noise at Salamis over the business of Lycidas; and when the Athenian women learned what was afoot, one calling to another and bidding her follow, they went on their own impetus to the house of Lycidas and stoned to death his wife and his children” (Hdt.
		The Councilors, and others, were not merely satisfied with voting down Lycidas’ motion, but stoned the man to death—a violent equivalent to a prosecution for “illegal motion”.
	www.stoa.org /projects/demos/article_council?page=15&greekEncoding=UnicodeC (671 words)

	RPO -- John Milton : Lycidas
		Lycidas, signed I.M., is the last poem in the volume.
		The name "Lycidas" is fairly common in pastoral poetry (e.g., in Theocritus, Idyl I, Virgil, Eclogues VII and IX).
		90] in Neptune's plea: that is, to exonerate Neptune (the sea) from blame for the death of Lycidas, by calling witnesses to the calm weather.
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	Milton and Paradise Lost study questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Note that the memorial volume in which Lycidas was published included twenty poems in Latin, three in Greek and only thirteen in English, clearly demonstrating the humanist training of these university students who (as Ascham and others advocated) learned to imitate classical poets in part by writing their own Latin and Greek verse.
		Unlike Lycidas (or Donne's Holy Sonnets), most of Milton's sonnets are not explicitly Christian in content; they also diverge from earlier sonnet tradition by their lack of emphasis on erotic love (and by the fact that they do not together constitute a sonnet cycle).
		Rather, Milton's sonnets betray his interest in the political and religious controversies that dominate his attention during and after the period of Puritan Rule (see esp. the poem dedicated to Cromwell, the military dictator of the Puritan Commonwealth and Protectorate, NA 1813).
	www.cla.calpoly.edu /~dschwart/engl331/milton.html (1783 words)

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		Lycidas is generally considered of the greatest poems in the English language and its greatest elegy.
		One literary critic said it "is the most poignant and controlled statement in English poetry of the acceptance of that in the human condition which seems to man unacceptable." Another critic suggests that the real subject of this poem is Milton himself.
		Choose ONE of the following images or themes and write a short paragraph describing its various appearances (and meanings) in the poem.
	www.engl.niu.edu /jschaeffer/spring00/409/sgelycidas.html (150 words)

	Chapter Lycidas <i>to</i> Lyttelton of L by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Chapter Lycidas to Lyttelton of L by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Lycidas, the name under which Milton celebrates the untimely death of Edward King, Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge.
		Edward King was drowned in the passage from Chester to Ireland, August 10, 1637.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1122/14817/1.html (530 words)

	John Milton
		Berthold, Michael C. "'Billy in the Darbies,' 'Lycidas,' and Melville's Figures of Captivity." American Transcendental Quarterly 6, no. 2 (June 1992): 109-19.
		Hyman, Lawrence W. "Lycidas: The 'False Surmise' and the 'True Revelation'." Milton Quarterly 17, no. 1 (March 1983): 7-11.
		Jacobus, Lee A. "'Lycidas' in the 'Nestor' Episode." James Joyce Quarterly 19, no. 2 (Winter, 1982): 189-94.
	www.english.umd.edu /englfac/WPeterson/ELR/bibliographies/documents/2.html (15704 words)

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		in Neptune's plea: that is, to exonerate Neptune (the sea) from blame for the death of Lycidas, by calling witnesses to the calm weather.
		Milton appears to refer to a tradition that on St. Michael's Mount, a rock off the south coast of Cornwall, the archangel Michael, one of England's two patron saints, had been seen standing on guard against the traditional enemy Spain, here represented by the district of Namancos and the castle of Bayona.
		A reference either to the rescue of the poet Arion by a dolphin, which bore him safely ashore, or to Melicertes, whose body was brought to shore by a dolphin, and who was deified as the god of harbours (as Lycidas was to become "the Genius of the shore'" below line 183).
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/english/eng14399f/LY/Lpoem.html (3269 words)

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		Project Gutenberg Etext of L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas, by John Milton Copyright laws are changing all over the world, be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before posting these files!!
		LYCIDAS In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637; and, by occasion, foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy, then in their height.
		This is the end of the Project Gutenberg Edition of L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas, by John Milton
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	Lycidas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In choosing to write a pastoral elegy, Milton adopted one of the most common strategies for writing poetry in honor of the dead.
		directly, mourning the sad reality of the present, from which Lycidas and his music are absent.
		urging them to cease their weeping since Lycidas is not really dead, but "mounted high" by the power of Christ, "him that walk'd the waves." In the heavenly realm, the speaker insists, Lycidas is "entertain[ed]" by choirs of saints who "wipe the tears for ever from his eyes."
	people.whitman.edu /~dipasqtm/lycidas.htm (1109 words)

	HON 102 Assignments
		Alpers includes a close reading of “Lycidas” within the elegiac tradition; it is a lucid work and definitely worth reading.
		This is perhaps useful for reference of Milton’s use of classic authors and literary criticism of the period.
		Prospectus due T 10/5: The purpose of the prospectus is to lay the foundation for the essay.
	www.chss.montclair.edu /~nielsenw/hon102a.html (1708 words)

	Lycidas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The name "Lycidas" comes from (A Roman poet; author of the epic poem `Aeneid' (70-19 BC)) Virgil, and is a common shepherd's name used in the pastoral mode.
		It is from a line in "Lycidas" that (United States writer best known for his autobiographical novels (1900-1938)) Thomas Wolfe took the name of his novel Look Homeward, Angel:
		But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/ly/lycidas.htm (163 words)

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