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Tag Archives: John Milton
Happy 400th birthday, John Milton
I am a baffled and awe-inspired fan. He has the kind of genius that is best not talked about too much. Just leave it be. Don’t try to ask why, or HOW … (I can’t help it: HOW????????) Just accept … Continue reading
John Milton Is Turning 400 Years Old
Many venues in New York (and, I assume, elsewhere) are getting ready to celebrate and pay tribute. I will definitely need to check out the exhibit at the Morgan Library (opening in October) – and I just love this entire … Continue reading
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Tagged John Milton, Michael Schmidt, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, William Wordsworth
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National Poetry Month: John Milton
John Milton. Paradise Lost is one of those things we had to read in high school – which … could we even understand a word of it?? I re-read it in, I think, 2000 – and found it to be … Continue reading
“They also serve”
In honor of National Poetry Month: I do not know how to preface this poem. It is one of the most powerful poems I have ever read. John Milton was going blind. He wrote this sonnet “on his blindness”. On … Continue reading