John Milton At 400

In my opinion, there is no lyric poem in the English language in "Lycidas'" league...and that's saying a lot because we have a very rich heitage of verse. For the most gorgeous poem I know, I'd have to go with Virgil's "Georgics." But every line of "Lycidas" is so sonorous.It's Secretariat winning the Belmont by over 30 lengths. It's Kirk Gibson's homerun in Game 1 of the '88 World Series (I'm a Dodger fan).It's Ray Robinson's left hook in the 5th round in his rematch with Gene Fullmer. I had no idea that Allen Ginsburg loved this poem and consigned it to memeory. My estimation of him goes way up.

A century or so before Theocritus, Herodotus, the 'Historian', mentions an Athenian councillor at Salamis, "named
Lycidas" who, together with his family fared not well in Athenian hands, they, thinking he colluded with the enemy
King Xerxes and his ambassadors.
And I feel a bit snarky in saying so but will apparently go length, despite Socrates and Plato's and many another
accountants disparagment, to seat and anoint good Homer as first, if not second "inspiration and rival to later poets."
glaringly not mentioned here, though I suppose the harp and stain is become old to some.
I guess the date(s) on R. T. S. Lowell's "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" (For Warren Winslow, Dead At Sea)
'first' in book form in his 1946 "Lord Weary's Castle And The Mills of the Kavanaughs has been changed.

"The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" was not written in 1976. Lowell actually wrote it in the 1940s and published it, I believe (I don't have the date at my fingertips) in the very early 50s. Please correct.