...Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom Universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar,...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? (11. 56-63) The inability of the Muses to protect their own leads Milton, as Evans writes, to question...

...Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down M3e stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. (58-63) Poets die suddenly, and the...

..."head of song" cannot but recall Milton's images of the decapitation of Orpheus and its aftermath:31 When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebras to the Lesbian shore. (61-^3) In "Lycidas," Orpheus is associated not only with the elegy's...

...Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son? Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. Alas! What boots it witli uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly...

...inchanting son Whom Universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. [56-63] In a pioneering article published in 1949 Caroline W. Mayerson declared that this allusion...

...cancelled and 'Whom universal nature might lament / And heaven and hell deplore / When his divine head down the stream was sent / Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore' inserted." 25. Cleanth Brooks and John Edward Hardy (149), distinguishing like Marks between the destructive...

...course as an omen of disaster. The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, 60 Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. (d) from Paradise Lost, 1667 These are the opening lines of Book 7 (1-39), at the mid-point of Paradise...

...herself that Orpheus bore. The muse herself for her enchanting son Whom universal nature did lament. 44 When by the rout that made the hideous roar. His gory...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. (38-63) The allusion here is to an episode which haunted Milton's imagination for the rest of his life,...

...course as an omen of diowster, The Muse herself. for her enchanting son. fi0 Whom universal namre did lament. When by the rout that made the hideous roar...the stream was sent. Down the swift Hebrus to the Leshian shore. (dI from Paradise Lost, 1667 These are the opening lines of Book 7 (1-39l, at the mid-point...

...Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom Universal nature did lament. When by the rout that made the hideous roar,...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly...