John Milton was a prude! Rare handwritten notes made by the famous English poet reveal how he dismissed a lewd anecdote as inappropriate. Experts have unearthed handwritten annotations made by the ...

Turns out, those notes were written by Milton, the 17th century poet who wrote “Paradise Lost.” The folio was apparently his personal copy, and he was working out his thoughts about Shakespeare. A ...

Without him nothing would be terrific, nobody would be sensuous, and we would never have gone into space. Those three words are among the many still in use that were invented by John Milton ...

MILTON HONORED AS PULPIT'S POET; Famous Clergymen and Men of Letters Unite in Birthday Celebration. BEN GREET RECITES POEMS Bishop Greer Presides and the Rev. Percy Grant and the Messrs. Butler, ...

Handwritten notes by Paradise Lost poet John Milton have been identified in a copy of a book in an American library. A curator from the University of Texas noticed annotations in the margins of ...

MILTON AS A POET AND PAMPHLETEER. Share full article. May 5, 1878. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 5, 1878, Page 3 Buy Reprints.

“England did not take Milton for its ideal because the poet belonged to a party. He was one of them, involved in their quarrels, and therefore refused by his opponents. . . .

On Dec. 9, 1608, poet John Milton was born in London.In 1854 Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s famous poem, “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” was published in England.In 1886 Clarence Birdseye ...

Handwritten notes by Paradise Lost poet John Milton have been identified in a copy of a book in an American library. A curator from the University of Texas noticed annotations in the margins of ...