Lycidas (poem)
Lycidas is a poem by John Milton written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy . It first appeared in 1638 in a collection of elegies entitled Justa Edouardo King Naufrago , which was dedicated to the memory of Edward King , a friend of Milton in Cambridge . Edward King drowned when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales in August 1637 . The poem is 193 verses long; it follows an irregular rhyme scheme . While many of the other poems in the collection are written in Greek and Latin , Lycidas is one of the poems written in English. In 1645 Milton republished the poem.
literature
- CA Patrides : Lycidas: The Tradition and the Poem. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1961, LCCN 61005930
- CA Patrides: Milton's Lycidas: The Tradition and the Poem. New and revised edition. University of Missouri 1983, ISBN 0-8262-0412-0
Web links
Wikisource: Lycidas - sources and full texts (English)
- Full Text in Milton Reading Room (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Mark Womack: On the Value of Lycidas . In: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 . 37, No. 1, Jan. 1, 1997, pp. 119-136. 450776. doi : 10.2307 / 450776 .
- ^ John (Trans. And Ed.) Marincola: Herodotus: The Histories ( English ). Penguin Classics, New York 1996.