ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Lycidas, poem by John Milton, written in 1637 for inclusion in a volume of elegies published in 1638 to commemorate the death of Edward King, Milton’s contemporary at the University of Cambridge who had drowned in a shipwreck in August 1637.

Detailed explanation-2: -Milton wrote poetry and prose between 1632 and 1674, and is most famous for his epic poetry. Special Collections and Archives holds a variety of Milton’s major works, including Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, L’Allegro, and Il Penseroso. Paradise Lost is one of the most recognized works in English literature.

Detailed explanation-3: -Genre. Lycidas is a pastoral elegy, a genre initiated by Theocritus, also put to famous use by Virgil and Spenser. Christopher Kendrick asserts that one’s reading of Lycidas would be improved by treating the poem anachronistically, that is, as if it was one of the most original pastoral elegies.

Detailed explanation-4: -"Lycidas” (/ˈlɪsɪdəs/) is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy.