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Milton's Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity; L'allegro: Il Penseroso : and Lycidas
Milton's Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity L'allegro Il Penseroso and Lycidas Author:John Milton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: Cambridge University Press Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Religion / Christian Theology / Christology Notes: This... more » is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: APPENDIX. THE TEXT OF LYCIDAS. We give here the textual variations between the original Ms. of Lyeidas, the Cambridge edition of 1638, and that published in 1645. By ' margin' are meant the marginal corrections in the Ms. Some of these, as we have said in the Introduction, are not found in the 1638 ed.: it is fair to assume that they were made after the volume had been printed. ' Milton's copy' is the copy of the first edition (now in the University Library at Cambridge) which has a few corrections in the poet's handwriting. Differences of reading are marked by italic type: ll.3-S- ' I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude before the mellowing yeare and w'h forc't fingers rude and crop yor young shatter your leaves before the mellowing yeare.' The words in italics are crossed out. Milton may have intended the last line to run -- 'and crop yor young leaves w"' forc't fingers rude.' Having got as far as young- he stopped, struck out ll. 4 -- 5, and with slight verbal changes transposed the verses so as to alter the sequence of rhymes. 8. Ms. ' for young Lycidas;' young erased. 10. Ms. 'he v//knew.' 12. Ms. 'TVbid;' changed to 'andbid.' 26. Ms. ' glimmering eyelids;' corrected to opening; yet the 1638 ed. has glimmering. 30. Ms. 'Oft till the ev'n-starre bright' (erased); margin, 'starre that rose in Ev'ning bright;' 1638 e...« less