...feel it in the 10 ' After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well ' — of Shakespeare; in the ' . . . though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues' — of Milton. It is in the incomparable charm of Milton's power 15 of poetic style which gives such...

...Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compast round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit's! my slumbers...

...days on evil tungues, / Milton appealed to the avenger, Time Milton in Paradise Lost wrote: '. . . though fall'n on evil days, / On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues' (VII 25-6). The allusion to Milton's appeal to ' the avenger, Time ' may refer to the passage immediately...

...about his relation to contemporary history and its cold political climate: here he is a poet historical fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compast round. ^n.15-17) He presents the contemporary fallen world as profoundly...

...will help. Years later, another world later, the "evil tongue" returned with a vengeance, multiplied: "fall'n on evil days, / On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues" (VII. 25-26). Such are the uncanny connections, forward and backward in time. If we remain puzzled...

...Standing on Earth, not rapt above the Pole, More safe I Sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compast round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit's! my slumbers...

...Standing on Earth, not rapt above the Pole, More safe I Sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days. On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compast round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers...

...partly wrote his poem in the politically "cold / Climate" (9.44-5) of the Restoration finds himself fall'n on evil days. On evil days though fall'n. and evil tongues: In darkness, and with dangers compast round, And solitude. (7.25-8) Isolated in such a hostile world,...

...hardly necessary to the generalized context: More safe I Sing with mortal voice unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compast round, And solitude. (7.24-28) More than just a confessional poet,...