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Of wood, of water' from which the house is made, prepare us for the subsequent account of the landscape and vegetation of Penshurst's grounds. With this movement established, the hierarchic progress from landscape to man takes over. But this hierarchy is not 24 Literature and Reality. 1600-1800 rigidly traced. At the point where what the landscape does for the house is to turn into what the animals do. we are told how 'The painted partridge lies in every field. / And. for thy mess. is willing to be killed' (29-30): mentioning the field still keeps us partly with the offerings of the land even as we move on to the creatures.
Beauty is Nature's brag' (738. 744). The Lady is to spend herself like money; solitariness and hoarding of the self are unhealthy. The image in If you let slip time. like a neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languished head (742-3) Milton 41 runs counter to previous suggestions. in which neglect led to excess growth. When Comus says. "Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts. and high solemnities Where most may wonder at the workmanship (744-6) we sense the irony of nature set beside courts, the idea that she is properly viewed and handled only by those cut off from her.
But Lycidas. type of all that is best in mortality. who is lost; and thus the issues raised can be both perennial and ultimate. The way that Milton's grief is thus caught up in a larger pattern of grief. the way pastoral elegy transforms what would have been the incongruities and limitations of personal lament into a universal mourning. prefigures the spiritual transformations of the poem. the change from despair to hope. So too does the name 'Lycidas': as King is made Lycidas. so Lycidas will be metamorphosed in and through Christ.
