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Lycidas

"Lycidas" (/ˈlɪsɪdəs/) is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy. It first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies, Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, dedicated to the memory of Edward King, a friend of Milton at Cambridge who drowned when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales in August 1637. The poem is 193 lines in…

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History of the name Lycidas

"Lycidas" as pastoral elegy

The Uncouth Swain

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Justa Edouardo King Naufrago

1645 reprint

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Lycidas

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related to The Uncouth Swain · 21
Lycidas → Belief, Christian, Death, Disbelief, Examples, Fury, Hyman, In, King, Lauren Shohet, Lawrence, Orpheus, Pagan, Russel Fraser, Sacred Well, Similarly, Since Lycidas, Sisters, The, Though
related to "Lycidas" as pastoral elegy · 16
Lycidas → Authors, By, Christian Middle Ages, Church, Edward King, England, God, Greek Sicily, King, Literary, Milton, Pastoral, Renaissance, Roman, The, Through
related to Justa Edouardo King Naufrago · 14
Lycidas → Among, Archbishop Laud, Cambridge, Church-outed, Collected, Edward King, Henry More, John Cleveland, Joseph Beaumont, Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, Laudian, Milton, The, While
related to history · 13
Lycidas → Athenian, BC, Book IX, Doric, Herodotus, Idyll, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Persian King Xerxes, Salamis, Suspected, The, Theocritus's Idylls, Virgil
related to Influence · 13
Lycidas → Angel, English, It, Look Homeward, Milton's, Samuel Johnson, Similarly, Stops, The, Thomas Wolfe, Various Quills, William Dean Howells, Yet
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Lycidas → Holt, ISBN, LCCN, Milton's Lycidas, Missouri, Patrides, Poem, Rinehart, The Tradition, University
related to The conclusion · 10
Lycidas → According, As Paul Alpers, Jonathan Post, Lauren Shohet, Nonetheless, Several, She, The, Thus, With
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Lycidas → The Milton Reading Room, WikisourceFull, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2, Works

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Lycidasrelated to "Lycidas" as pastoral elegyBy0.60section
Lycidasrelated to "Lycidas" as pastoral elegyEdward King0.60section
Lycidasrelated to "Lycidas" as pastoral elegyMilton0.60section
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Lycidasrelated to "Lycidas" as pastoral elegyGreek Sicily0.60section
Lycidasrelated to "Lycidas" as pastoral elegyRoman0.60section
Lycidasrelated to "Lycidas" as pastoral elegyChristian Middle Ages0.60section
Lycidasrelated to "Lycidas" as pastoral elegyRenaissance0.60section
Lycidasrelated to "Lycidas" as pastoral elegyKing0.60section
Lycidasrelated to "Lycidas" as pastoral elegyThrough0.60section
Lycidasrelated to "Lycidas" as pastoral elegyGod0.60section
Lycidasrelated to "Lycidas" as pastoral elegyChurch0.60section

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