Campion’s “New Admiréd Guest”

NotesSee Hallett Smith, et al, eds., The Norton Anthology of English Literature, I (4th ed.; New York: Norton, 1979), p. 993, n. 2. See also R.D. Hoeniger, et al, eds., Representative Poetry, I (3rd ed.; Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1962), p. 394.For example, in “Il Penseroso,” Milton refers to Melancholy as “Black,” as that “starred Ethiope queen that strove/ To set her beauty's praise above/ The sea nymphs.”A.H. Bullen, ed., Thomas Campion: Songs and Masques, with Observations in the Art of English Poesy (London: privately printed, 1903), p. 282. In the Propertius elegy “Haec tua, Persephone, maneat clementia, nec tu” (II, xxviiia), it is Tyro, rather than lope, who is described as “white.” Clearly, then, Campion's reference to “White lope,” while confirming the relationship of the two poems, also suggests a subtle rearranging of both contrasts and identities.See Walter R. Davis, ed., The Works of Thomas Campion (London: Faber and Faber, 1969). pp. 3-6

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