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Johnson's Life of Milton, With Intr. and Notes by F. Ryland
Johnson's Life of Milton With Intr and Notes by F Ryland Author:Samuel Johnson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1894 Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. ... more » 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: 1. 14, he says. See Milton's introductory note to " Paradise Lost" on " The Verse" (Globe edit., p. 41; Aldine i. 148). 1. 17, Earl of Surrey. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (c. 1517-1547), translated two books of Virgil, not one, as Johnson supposed. His blank verse translation of bks. ii. and iv. of the " J3neid " appeared in 1557, or earlier. 1. 18, a few short poems. For instance, two poems of about one hundred lines each, by Grimald, in " Tottel's Miscellany" (1557). Johnson probably overlooked Gascoigne's " Steel Glass" (1576), a poem of over eleven hundred lines. 1. 20, Written by Baleigh himself. '"De Guiana Carmen Epicum. Authore G. C.' Printed in Hakluyt, vol. iii. Oldys attributes it to George Chapman. Sufficient attention has not been paid to this early and thoughtful specimen of blank verse " (Cunningham). 1. 24, Trisino's " Italia Liberata." Giovanni Trissino (1478- 1550), published his " Italia Liberata" in 1548. " No one has ever pretended to rescue from the charge of dulness and insipidity the epic poem of the father of blank verse, Trissino, on the liberation of Italy from the Goths by Belisarius. It is, of all long poems that are remembered at all, the most unfortunate in its reputation" (Hallam, "Literature of Europe," i. 422). 1. 27, he says. Note on "The Verse." "Rime being no necessary adjunct, or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame ...« less