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...Lawes asked his friend, Pamphleteer and Poet John Milton, to run off some verses for a masque (a quasi dramatization in verse of some allegory) which John Earl of Bridgewater wished to grace some festivities, Milton complied with a "Masque presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634," long since known as Comus. This masque so casually written to order, printed in 1637 without even the author's name, is one of the loveliest poems written in English and perhaps the best of Milton's minor works. Valued little at printing, its first (1637) edition last week at auction in Manhattan brought...
Recently a first edition of the "Cosmus" was sold for over $11,000, and the intrinsic value together with its unusual associations make the new Harvard "Comus" one of the great treasures of its Library...
Chief of the gifts announced at this time is one of the great rarities of Milton bibliography, a copy of the first edition of Comus," dated 1637. The copy was brought to this country after the sale of the Bridgewater collection by the well-known, New York bookseller, Gabriel Wells. This edition, which was published by Henry Lawes, musician and friend of the poet, appeared anonymously...
...evidences of his lyrical genius. Although these poems may appear dry to us because they have been forced upon us as required reading, to the readers of Milton's time they were filed with wonderful freshness, and still stand out as perfect examples of lyric poetry. In Comus, which Milton wrote next, we see the theme of temptation and the disciplinary power of temptation, which ran through all of his later works." Professor Lowes also showed that in Milton we see a long conflict between his appreciation of beauty and his Puritan attitude toward beauty...
...Venice Unseen" is an offering by Mr. Kloeber, imaginative and exaggerated, as "the silver night"; why not perhaps (when the moon is not shining) a qualification, as in Milton's "Comus": "Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night...