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Lycidas
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(1638) Poem by *Milton, prompted by the death of a fellow student at Cambridge, Edward King, in a shipwreck of 1637 in the Irish Sea. It was printed in a volume of poems in the young man's memory. Written in a formal pastoral convention, it is nevertheless a very personal meditation on mortality – perhaps Milton's own more forcefully than Edward King's, who had been an acquaintance rather than a close friend.
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