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- Lycidas - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
When John Milton was asked to write an elegy for Edward King, who had drowned in a shipwreck in 1637, he created the poem Lycidas. The poem mourns the loss of a virtuous and promising young man who was about to begin his career as a clergyman.