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He adopts Homer's narrative practices: the formulated repetitions of phrase, the pictorial comparisons, the conventional epithets (in moderation), and his gnomic habit O purblind race of miserable men," etc The original four idylls were published in 1859.

—A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

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I have sometimes read that these two idylls are “masterpieces of description”. — Milton
These two short idylls are marked by a gladsome spontaneity which never came to Milton again. — Milton
'The two idylls,' he says, 'breathe the free air of spring and summer and of the fields round Horton. — Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs
I am not fond of those rustic scenes which are as dull in painting as idylls, when they make no allusion to fable or to history. — Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy
He adopts Homer's narrative practices: the formulated repetitions of phrase, the pictorial comparisons, the conventional epithets (in moderation), and his gnomic habit O purblind race of miserable men," etc The original four idylls were published in 1859. — A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century