...And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit's! my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the East: still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. And in the end he makes a tragic hero of the blind Samson. Milton wrote sonnets intermittently throughout...

...And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers Nightly, or when Morn Purples the East: still govern thou my Song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive farr off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his Revellers, the Race Of that wilde Rout...

...degree to which the archetype of that drowned poet becomes linked with his sense of his own career: Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revelers, the race Of that wild rout...

...And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit's! my slumbers Nightly, or when Morn Purples the East: (Bk. VII, 1. 27-31) EBEV; FiP; NAEL-1; OAEL-1; OBS; TOF 85 And God said. Let the waters generate, Reptile...

...ambitious, too intellectually and spiritually exacting for all but a few readers, this is intentional: still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers. (VII:30-33)24 For the fit...

...harmonies) to find her audience by singing through him. Milton's music is figuratively not his own: Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. (Paradise Lost y.3o-3i) Wordsworth invokes Milton by misquoting him even before he makes any mention...

...And solitude; yet not alone while Thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the East. Still govern Thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. [vH. 23-31] 14. Revival, 1663—1669 were relatively few published allusions to Milton during the period...

...solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly or when morn 30 Purples the east. Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout...

...And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers Nightly, or when Morn Purples the East: still govern thou my Song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. (PL, vn, 16-31) NOTES 1 The Works ofLordByron. letters and Journals, ed. Rowland E. Prothero (London,...

...themselves divined."46 Echoing Milton's invocation of Urania at the start of Book VII of Paradise Lost ("still govern thou my Song, / Urania, and fit audience find, though few" (ll.30-31](, these early critics, as well as the generations of Dickinson critics to follow, engage...