Milton and the tangles of Neaera's hair

the making of the 1645 Poems

by Stella Purce Revard

1997 299 pages eng

Milton's 1645 Poems is a double volume, containing not only Milton's major English lyric poems - the Nativity ode, "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso," "Lycidas," and the mask Comusbut also his youthful elegiac poetry and his mature Latin poems, which were written in the late 1630s after his major Englis…