 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 356 pages
...self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian flowres, and hear Such streins as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. [145-50] All this presents a sharp contrast with the poem of "the fixed mind" whose presiding goddess,... | |
 | John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 262 pages
...parallel evocation of Orpheus in the closing lines of VAllegro calls up music and lyric poetry to make one hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. We are reminded that the formulation in // Penseroso suppresses the fact that... | |
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With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus... 
