The 17th century author of “Paradise Lost” was a big fan of Shakespeare. The Free Library of Philadelphia is discovered to have his personal copy. A copy of a nearly 400-year old folio of plays by ...
John Milton is widely considered to be one of the greatest English poets who ever lived—just ask such luminaries as John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Jonson, and Voltaire, who once declared, "Milton ...
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MILTON — Hilaire Belloc — Lippincott ($4). MILTON — Rose Macaulay — Harper ($2). John Milton is no longer biographical news. Unlike Shakespeare’s, his life has no tantalizingly mysterious blind spots.
IF from Hilaire Belloc, the great Catholic apologist, we hardly expect a laudatory portrait of an arch-heretic, we are agreeably surprised in Milton (Lippincott, $4.00) at his fairness. Milton the man ...
Who best qualifies for the position of U. S. Poet? New England’s Ralph Waldo Emerson and Long Island’s Walt Whitman are doubtless the foremost candidates, with a few critics ranking California’s ...
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