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...interesting article in Musical America, apropos of the Centenary of Home, Sweet Home, relates that the melody of that famous song is an old Italian tune. Payne, who wrote the lyric, heard a peasant girl in Italy singing a lovely snatch of song. He wrote down the notes, and afterward adapted his verses to it. Curiously, when Donizetti wanted a typical English melody for his opera Anna Bolena, he chose Home, Sweet Home, not knowing that it was not English in origin, but as Italian as his own compositions...
Professor J. L. Lowes, G. '03, professor of English in the University, speaking yesterday afternoon on "Milton", stressed the beauty of Milton's lyric poetry and the many elements of interest to modern readers in his work. Professor Lowes stated that the uninteresting and austere parts of Milton's life have been impressed upon our minds, and that this has had a deadening effect on our desire to read his writings, but declared that, if students could rid themselves of this natural antipathy, they would find in Milton much delightful romance...
...shaping his character, because he devoted them entirely to reading the classics and to deep meditation. "In 'L'Allegro' and 'II Penseroso', which Milton wrote at this time", the speaker continued, "we see the poet's reaction to the beautiful scenery around him, and the 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...
...Romanticism in Greek lyric poetry...
...lyric character, the sturdy Danish peasant and healthy Danish girl...