ligea's

Updated: May 5, 2025

And yet it seems almost ungenerous to place Milton even below himself, particularly when in the very speech we are criticizing we are brought face to face with two such flawless lines as those on 'fair Ligea's golden comb', Wherwith she sits on diamond rocks Sleeking her soft alluring locks lines which anticipate and rival the perfection of rhythmic modulation in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso .

Walter W. Greg - Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration: Stage in England