Lycidas
Sign in to savethumb|Lycidas by James Havard Thomas, bronze cast in collections of [[Aberdeen Art Gallery and Tate Britain]]
Key dates
- Inception
- 1637
- Published
- 1638
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- John Milton
- Genre
- poetry
- Country of origin
- England
- Image
- James havard thomas, lycidas, 1902-08.jpg
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- P407
- English language
- P6216
- public domain
- P7937
- poem
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12 sectionsContents
- History of the name Lycidas
- "Lycidas" as pastoral elegy
- The Uncouth Swain
- The Pilot
- The conclusion
- ''Justa Edouardo King Naufrago''
- 1645 reprint
- Influence
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Lycidas by James Havard Thomas, bronze cast in collections of [[Aberdeen Art Gallery and Tate Britain]]
"Lycidas" () is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy. It first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies, Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, dedicated to the memory of Edward King, a friend of Milton at Cambridge who drowned when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales in August 1637. The poem is 193 lines in length and is irregularly rhymed. Many of the other poems in the compilation are in Greek and Latin, but "Lycidas" is one of the poems written in English. Milton republished the poem in 1645.