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John Milton - History of Britain
A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE and of THE MORTE D'ARTHUR, for Milton employs a style that might be called...
Thomas A. Copeland
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John Milton - On the Late Massacre in the Piedmont
On the Late Massacre in the Piedmont was written by John Milton in 1655. It was the weekly poem for the week of Feb 21-Feb 28, 2016. — Summary by EstherbenSimonides
Algy Pug
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Poetry
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John Milton - Paradise Lost (version 2)
As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to recount the origin of the human race itself and, in particular, the origin of...
Thomas A. Copeland
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Essays & Short Works
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John Milton - Areopagitica (Version 2)
The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor of books himself when his opposition to this practice was ignored by the...
Thomas A. Copeland
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Poetry
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John Milton - Paradise Regain'd (version 2)
Having been publicly acknowledged as God's «beloved Son,» Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Messiah, about whose coming many conflicting opinions have been circulating among the...
Thomas A. Copeland
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Poetry
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John Milton - Adam and Eve
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Adam and Eve (From “Paradise Lost,” Fourth Book) by John Milton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the...
Amy
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General Fiction
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John Milton - Samson Agonistes
“The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.” Milton composes his last extended work as a tragedy according to the classical Unities of Time,...
Martin Geeson
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Political Science
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John Milton - Areopagitica
A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War… Milton, though a supporter of the Parliament, argued forcefully against the Licensing Order of 1643,...
Moira Fogarty
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Epics
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John Milton - Paradise Regained
Paradise Regained is a poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton, published in 1671. It is connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost, with which it shares similar theological...
Sibella Denton
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Poetry
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John Milton - Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, and sought to create a work of art which fully...
Owen
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