Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 318, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1920 — Charmed Names Featured in Milton’s Poems Which Appeal to Many Readers [ARTICLE]

Charmed Names Featured in Milton’s Poems Which Appeal to Many Readers

Scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known, or more frequently repeated, than those which are little more than muster-rolls of names. They are not always jnore appropriate' or more melodious than other names. But they are charmed names. Every one of them is the first link in a long chain of associated ideas. Like the dwellingplace of our iiifancy revisited in manhood. like the song of our country heard in a strange land, they produce upon 08 an effect wholly Independent. nt their intrinsic value. One transports us back to a remote period of history. Another places us among the novel scenes and manners of a distant' region. A third evokes all the dear classical recollections of childhood, the schoolroom, the dog-eared Virgil, the holiday, and the prize. A fourth brings before us the splendid phantoms of chivalrous romance, the trophied lists, the embroidered housings, the quaint devices, the haunted forests, the enchanted gardens, the achievements of enamored knights, and the smiles of rescued princesses.—Ma» caulay.