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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: KING ARTHUR: THE BRITISH WORTHY. DRAMATIC OPERA. -hie alta theatris Fvndamenta locant, ?semis decora altafuturis. VlRO. Mu. 1. Purpurea intexti tollant aultea Britanni. Georg. 3. . Tanton' placuit concurrere motu, Jupiter, aterna gentes in pacefuturis jEneid. 12. i .Et cekbrare domestica facta. Hob. KING ARTHUR. Th E Seventeenth century was still familiar with Whate'er resounds, In fable or romance, ol Utlier's son, Begirt wilb British and Armoric It.lights. Fired by the splendid fictions which romancers had raised on the basis of Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Welsh traditions, Milton, had designed the exploits ot King Arthur for the subject of his: loity epic strain. What we have lost, in his abandoning the tUeme, can only be estimated by the enthusiastic tone into which he always swells, when he touches upon the shores of old romance. The sublime glow of his imagination, which delighted in painting what was beyond the reach ot human experience; the dignity of his language, formed to express the sentiments of heroes and of immortals; his powers of describing alike the beautiful and terrible; above all, the justice with which he conceived and assigned to each supernatural agen a character as decidedly peculiar, as lesser poets have given to their human actors, would have sent him forth to encounter such a subject with gigantic might. Whoever has ventured, undeterred by their magnitude, upon the old romances of Lancelot du Lac, Sir Tristrem, and others, founded on the achievements of the Knights of the Round Table, cannot but remember a thousand striking Gothic incidents, worthy subjects of the pen of Milton. What would he not have made of the adventure of the Ruinous Chapel, the Perilous Manor, the Forbidden Seat, the Dolorous Wo...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459004894 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459004892 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $21.33 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 276 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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