John Milton
John Milton
John Miltonwas an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 December 1608
indeed less poetry rather rhetoric sensuous subtle
Rhetoric . . . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous and passionate.
against begins eastern great sun
Right against the eastern gate, / Where the great sun begins his state.
heroic life poems writers-and-writing
Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
consider dark days death half light spent talent
When I consider how my light is spent / Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, / And that one talent which is death to hide, / Lodged with me useless.
deadly found restless rush sooner
Restless thoughts, like a deadly swarm of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, but rush upon me thronging.
call half left
Or call up him that left half told / The story of Cambuscan bold.
ear free quite won
Such strains as would have won the ear / Of Pluto, to have quite set free / His half-regained Eurydice.
close ear squat
Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.
enduring incapable miserable
It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
brought shadow sin
Man's disobedience) brought into this World a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's Harbinger
create ear might ribs soul took
I was all ear / And took in strains that might create a soul / Under the ribs of Death.
men ways
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men
glory race shall
My race of glory run, and race of shame, / And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
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