FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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Homer, Virgil, and Dante
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Dante, Spenser, and Pope
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Homer, Dryden, and Longfellow
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Virgil, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen
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Detailed explanation-1: -At this point in his life, Milton was certainly familiar with the classical Homeric epics of the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as Virgil’s Aeneid. Milton also knew Dante’s Divine Comedy, which, while not technically an epic, has many epic characteristics.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Epic. At the early age of sixteen, Milton already aspired to write the great English epic. As he read the classical epics in school-Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid-he began to fantasize about bringing such artistic brilliance to the English language.
Detailed explanation-3: -It has been commonly accepted that John Milton is acquainted with Dante Alighieri who has a great influence on Milton’s epic Paradise Lost. The significance of The Divine Comedy for Milton lies especially in Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Carlyle declared him the “moral king of English literature, ” while George Eliot and Thomas Hardy were particularly inspired by Milton’s poetry and biography.
Detailed explanation-5: -After finishing university Milton took a “grand tour” and traveled throughout France and Italy, meeting scholars along the way including Galileo. One of Milton’s biggest influences was Dante’s Divine Comedy. During his travels to Florence he visited the birth place of Dante.