The Poetical Works of John Milton, Vol. 4: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally From the Editions of Thomas Newton, D.D., Charles Dunster, M.A. ... Newton's Life of Milton (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Poetical Works of John Milton, Vol. 4: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally From the Editions of Thomas Newton, D.D., Charles Dunster, M.A. And Thomas Warton, B. D.; To Which Is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton. For a composition to one of the airs of Cartwright's Ariadne, mentioned above, Lewes, as l have before incidentally remarked, is said to have introduced the Italian style of music into England and Fenton, in his Notes on Waller, affirms. That he imparted a mfler mixture of Italian airs than was yet known. This perhaps is not strictly or technically true. Without a rigorous adherence to counterpoint, but with more taste and feeling than the pedantry of theoretic harmony could confer, he communicated to verse an ori ginal and expressive melody. He exceeded his predecessors and contemporaries, in a pathos and sentiment, a simplicity and pro priety, an articulation and intelligibility, which so naturally adapt themselves to the words of the poet. Hence, says our author, Sonn. Xiii. 7.. About the Publisher. Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.