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 ...

Poet John Milton turns 405 today. Here's Why He Still Matters. Skip Navigation ... Milton's fiction is not in our style, and it seems inadequate to the solution of our problems.

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 ...

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 ...

Four hundred years ago, John Milton was born in Cheapside in London and became one of the greatest poets in post-Shakespearean England. He was a champion of the parliamentary movement, a Puritan ...

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, ...

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own ...

Four hundred years ago, John Milton was born in Cheapside in London and became one of the greatest poets in post-Shakespearean England. ... John Milton - Puritan, Polymath & Poet. Sunday, July 19 ...

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 ...