FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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Pastoral elegy
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Prose polemic
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Blank verse tragedy
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Masque
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Detailed explanation-1: -John Milton wrote a masque called Comus, or A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, in the year 1634. In honor of the Earl’s appointment as the new Lord President of Wales, it was originally given to him on Michaelmas Day, 1634, at Ludlow Castle.
Detailed explanation-2: -Comus is a masque against “masquing, ” contrasting a private heroism in chastity and virtue with the courtly round of revelry and pleasure. It was Milton’s first dramatizing of his great theme, the conflict of good and evil.
Detailed explanation-3: -Miltonic verse Milton’s most notable works, including Paradise Lost, are written in blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter. He was not the first to use blank verse, which had been a mainstay of English drama since the 1561 play Gorboduc.
Detailed explanation-4: -In late Greek mythology, Comus was known as the god of revelry. In John Milton’s 1634 poetic work of the same name, Comus is an enchanter, the son of Circe, who, like her, attempts to seduce travelers.