. Select Minor Poems of John Milton . tic composition would conveythrough events, or distribute in small portions through , are massed and presented in a set speech, notaddressed to some person on the stage, but delivered point-blank at the audience. Thus the illusion of reality is whollylacking; but this is not a peculiarity of the Co?mis. It ischaracteristic of the masque-type, since masques were alwayscomposed for audiences of the highest degree of culture andof leisure, who sought in the spectacle not the excitement andthe human interest which the term dramatic properly con-not
. Select Minor Poems of John Milton . tic composition would conveythrough events, or distribute in small portions through , are massed and presented in a set speech, notaddressed to some person on the stage, but delivered point-blank at the audience. Thus the illusion of reality is whollylacking; but this is not a peculiarity of the Co?mis. It ischaracteristic of the masque-type, since masques were alwayscomposed for audiences of the highest degree of culture andof leisure, who sought in the spectacle not the excitement andthe human interest which the term dramatic properly con-notes, but rather that agreeable exhilaration which comesfrom the satisfaction of the senses of sight and hearing, andof the cesthetic sensibilities in general. THE PERSONS IN COMUS. The Attendant Spirit, afterward in the habit of Thyrsis. Com us with his crew. The Lady. First Brother. Second Brother. , the Nymph. The Chief Persons which presented were: —The Lord Thomas Egerton, his Lady Alice COMUS. A MASQUE. Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, before John, Earl ofBridgewater, then President of Wales. The First Scene Discovers a Wild Wood. The Attendant Spirit descends or enters. Spirit. Before the starry threshold of Joves courtMy mansion is, where those immortal shapesOf bright aerial spirits live inspheredIn regions mild of calm and serene air,Above the smoke and stir of this dim spotWhich men call Earth, and with low-thoughted care, 91 94 MINOR POEMS. Confined and pestered in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being, Unmindful of the crown that Virtue gives, After this mortal change, to her true servants lo Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats. Yet some there be that by true steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity. To such my errand is; and but for such 15 I would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds With the rank vapours of this sin-worn mould. But to my t
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