...wanted, and Walter Scott was. We do not agree with the doctrine implied in Wordsworth's sonnet, Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee. England would have been the better for him, but England would not have attended to him if she had had...

...called Milton Friend. (1-4) — and, closer still to Keats's sense of England's present decline, Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee . . . (1-2) These two sonnets, 'Great Men' and 'London, 18o2', were among the three of Wordsworth's...

...when she wondered how a poet capable of writing Paradise Lost had written such poor sonnets. 4 Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, (1770-1850) British poet." London, 1802," written 1802, published in Poems in Two...

...of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows. 12804 'Milton! thou shouldst be living...' Milton! f 12805 Natlonal Independence and Liberty 'November 1806' Another year! - another deadly blow! Another...

...but Wordsworth, had already declared England "a fen / Of stagnant waters," the corruption general: "altar, sword, and pen, / Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower" are decayed through a common selfishness, through which has been "forfeited" the common "English dower...

...friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and Man's unconquerable mind. 217. London, 1802 Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath...men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose...

...posthumous Orwell, especially after the publication of CEJL in 1968. Sighed the Tribune reviewer: "Orwell, thou shouldst be living at this hour. England hath need of thee." The Right voiced similar sentiments. Said a reviewer for The Financial Times: "It would be impossible...

...Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. London, 1802 Milton!1 thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath...men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose...

..."virtue" embodied by John Milton, whose epic poem Paradise Lost had appeared 135 years earlier. Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour England hath...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; . . . (Sonnet VIII, "London, 1802") The impulse to condemn the ethical present — "We are selfish...

...metal sulfides are insoluble in neutral or slightly acid solution "Milton! thou shouldst be leaving at this hour: England hath need of thee; she is a fen of stagnant waters" -Wordsworth. The metaphor, "she is a fen of (continued) 76 Table 1. (continued) Goal Evidenced by Test...