Lycidas has been fraught with strong responses from readers since it first saw the light of print. Considered by many to be one of the great...

Hesiod, Theogony 820 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : " Typhoeus ; the hands and arms of him are mighty, and h...

The mention of "Hippotades" (for Aeol0s, son of Hippotas, who appears in Lycidas ) evokes scenes from the Odyssey, the Aeneid, the...

Here's an online edition of Lycidas with more copious notes than the Dartmouth.

Our next meeting will be Oct. 7 where we'll pick up The Waste Land where we left off. Here's an audiolink to T.S. reading the poem.

Theocritus's first Idyll is relevant in certain ways to Lycidas. See below. Also serving as background for allusion are Virgil's Ec...

A commonplace of Renaissance literary thought that is certainly relevant to Milton is the idea of the "Virgilian progression." Her...

Durer, Death of Orpheus Lycidas

The Three Graces: Aglaea ("Beauty"), Euphrosyne ("Mirth"), and Thalia ("Good Cheer") by Antonio Canova. So...

Our next meeting will be at Gulf Gate on Sept. 2 in the afternoon, from 1 pm to 3 pm. We'll return to the morning time the following ses...

Madonna with the Long Neck The Wedding Feast of Cupid and Psyche Bacchus

Nun Appleton House This looks to be a complete essay by T.S. Eliot on Marvell: First published in the Times Literary Supplement , 31 March...