Milton's Comus
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Verse, music and moral argument meet in this edition of John Milton's masque, first performed at Ludlow Castle in 1634. William Bell's introduction places Comus among the poems Milton wrote while living at Horton and explores its debts to classical literature and Spenser. The central concern is self-control: Bell reads the poem as a contest between bodily appetite and the claims of conscience.
The volume pairs the dramatic poem with detailed notes and an index to them. In the annotations, nightingales, violets, Echo and Narcissus lead into discussions of ancient stories, word origins, grammar and the varying rhythms of a song.
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- Author
- John Milton
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 138
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Classical Poetry
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