The poetic birth: Milton's poems of 1645

Abstract

Part 1 Poetic birth - an approach to Milton's early poetry: a brief apology ceaseless round of study and reading himself a true poem - the poetic vocation, inspiration and Orpheus. Part 2 The poems published in 1645: twin book - the presentation of the 1645 volume holy song - the nativity ode and the religious poems deluding joys - the double vision of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso forc'd fingers rude - an approach to Lycidas unpolluted temple of the mind - Comus and Arcades. Appendix: the Latin poems of 1645 - a translation.