The speaker of this poem wishes to call up Chaucer in order to listen to th
The speaker of this poem wishes to call up Chaucer in order to listen to the completed Squire's Tale. This poem mentions a "sad virgin" who might "bid the soul of Oprheus sing / such notes as warbled to the string / Drew iron tears down Plutoes cheek." Its speaker refers to religious music which "may with sweetness, through mine ear / Dissolve me into extasies / And bring all Heaven before mine eyes," and wants to read Plato and "outwatch the Bear" in "som high lonely tower." The speaker wishes to inhabit a "Hairy Gown and Mossy Cell" in order to attain "somthing like Prophetic strain," and hails a goddess born to Vesta and Saturn in the grove of Ida. Beginning "Hence vaine deluding joyes / the brood of folly without father bred," FTP, name this poem about the melancholy man by John Milton, the companion to "L'Allegro."
The speaker of this poem wishes to call up Chaucer in order to listen to the completed Squire's Tale.
“{Il Penseroso}”