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The good old cause: John Milton's Areopagitica revisited.(Literature)

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From: Quadrant
Date: 20051001
Author:Coleman, Peter

Idle expens was spar 'd, for guests were none, No drunken riot, verses fescennine, Or antic dancing marr 'd the awful day. In conscious rectitude the Bridegroom smil 'd Upon his Consort with superior love, And pass 'd the hours til night in discourse high To justifie to her the wayes of Man.

--from James McAuley's "A Wedding Piece", as John Milton might have handled the union of St George (England) and Una (the Church of England) in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

JAMES MCAULEY thought Wordsworth got it wrong when he wrote:

Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this ...

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