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Brewer's: Lycidas

The name under which Milton celebrates the untimely death of Edward King, Fellow of Christ College, Cambridge, who was drowned in his passage from Chester to Ireland, August 10th, 1637. He…

elegy

(Encyclopedia) elegy, in Greek and Roman poetry, a poem written in elegiac verse (i.e., couplets consisting of a hexameter line followed by a pentameter line). The form dates back to 7th cent. b.c.…

pastoral

(Encyclopedia) pastoral, literary work in which the shepherd's life is presented in a conventionalized manner. In this convention the purity and simplicity of shepherd life is contrasted with the…

Brewer's: Lycaonian Tables

[Lycaoniæmensæ]. Execrable food. Lycaon, desirous of testing the divine knowledge of Jove, who had honoured him with a visit, served up human flesh on his table; for which the god changed…

Brewer's: Lycisca

(half-wolf, half-dog). One of the dogs of Actæon. In Latin it is a common term for a sheperd's dog, and is so used by Virgil (Eclogue iii. 18). (See Dog.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…

Brewer's: Neæera

Any sweetheart or lady love. She is mentioned by Horace, Virgil, and Tibullus. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neæra's hair. Milton: Lycidas. Source:…

Brewer's: Amaryllis

A pastoral sweetheart. The name is borrowed from the pastorals of Theocritos and Virgil. “To sport with Amaryllis in the shade.” Milton: Lycidas, 68. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…

Brewer's: Bellerus

Bellerium is the Land's End, Cornwall, the fabled land of the giant Bellerus. “Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old.” Milton: Lycidas, 160. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Milton, John

(Encyclopedia) Milton, John, 1608–74, English poet, b. London, one of the greatest poets of the English language. Milton's theology, although in the Protestant tradition, is extremely…