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Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint
Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint is the first line of a sonnet by the English poet John Milton, typically designated as Sonnet XXIII and thus referred to by scholars. The poem recounts a dream vision in which the speaker saw his wife return to him (as the dead Alcestis appeared to her husband Admetus), only to see her disappear again as day comes. There is considerable discussion among scholars as to which of his first two wives Milton could refer to. Samuel Johnson, in the ''Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets'', suggests his second wife, Katherine Woodcock, and comments that "her husband honoured her memory with a poor sonnet".〔Johnson I.77.〕
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The influence of Giovanni della Casa's sonnets is recognized as an influence on all of Milton's sonnets; critics discern della Casa's "deliberate () with the Petrarchan tradition of regularity and smoothness".〔Mazzaro 7.〕 Sonnet XXIII combines two traditions, with its argument developing in the way of the English sonnet (in quatrains and a couplet) while its rhyme scheme follows the Italian form.〔Mazzaro 10.〕 The poem drives much of its strength from the opposition of day and night, made explicit in the last line (the pairing is discussed by Leo Spitzer in comparison with a Latin poem by Iovianus Pontanus〔Mazzaro 10.〕).
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