FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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Samuel Johnson
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Edmund Spencer
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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T. S. Eliot
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Detailed explanation-1: -From ‘Lives Of The Poets’ by Samuel Johnson.
Detailed explanation-2: -D., generally regarded as the greatest of English biographies, written by James Boswell and published in two volumes in 1791.
Detailed explanation-3: -Johnson hated Milton’s democratic principles and despised his impracticable philosophy. Most of the lives can be divided into three sections: a biography, a brief character and a critical section. His criticism on ‘Lycidas’ “easy, vulgar and therefore disgusting”. He was asked by his publishers to write about Milton.
Detailed explanation-4: -It was published in a memorial volume at Cambridge in 1638. As customary for young gentlemen of means, Milton set out for a tour of Europe in the spring of 1638.
Detailed explanation-5: -Milton’s theme in Paradise Lost, however, does not end with the idea of disobedience. Milton says that he will also “assert Eternal Providence.” If Man had never disobeyed God, death would never have entered the world and Man would have become a kind of lesser angel.