Advanced reader . ing speed,And post oer land and ocean without rest;They also serve who only stand and wait. 1. Give an account of the English Pastoral and Elegy. 2. Explain the following statements:— . The first lines of Lycidas connected Miltons strain of love with hisimmediate past. Its last line glances on his immediate future.—Morley. In Lycidas the event which gave occasion for the poem has the firstplace, and to it the various changes of theme are subordinate.—Browne. The conflict between tne old cavalier world—the years of gaiety andfestivity of a and pleasure-loving court, a
Advanced reader . ing speed,And post oer land and ocean without rest;They also serve who only stand and wait. 1. Give an account of the English Pastoral and Elegy. 2. Explain the following statements:— . The first lines of Lycidas connected Miltons strain of love with hisimmediate past. Its last line glances on his immediate future.—Morley. In Lycidas the event which gave occasion for the poem has the firstplace, and to it the various changes of theme are subordinate.—Browne. The conflict between tne old cavalier world—the years of gaiety andfestivity of a and pleasure-loving court, and the new Puritanworld, into whicn love and pleasure were not to enter—this conflict, whichwas commencing in the social life^of England, is also begun in Miltonsown breast, and is reflected in Lycidas. —Pattison. 3. Apply the Critical estimate, p. ^, to the selections from Milton. 4. Memorize at least the Sonnet and 11. 70-S4 and 132-151 of Lycidas. Composition. Miltons genius is eminently SHAKESPEARE. Biographical.—Although the glory of the new Literature had burstforth in the author of the Faerie Qucene, the influences which were thenarousing human intelligence did not culminate till towards the latterpart of Elizabeths reign, when dramatic composition and representation5 attracted all the poetical genius of England. Foremost among the writersof the period was William Shakespeare. The well-authenticated factsabout his life are very few, and a good deal of what is told of him isconjectural or insufficiently proved. We know that he was born inStratford-on-Avon in April, 1564, but the exact date is uncertain. It is 10 recorded that he was baptized on the 25th of the same month, and thereis a tradition that he died on the anniversary of his birthday, whichwould, therefore, be the 23rd of April. His father, John Shakespeare,was a wool-dealer and glover. For a time his affairs prospered, and hebecame an alderman and afterwards high bailiff, or mayor, of
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