FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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William Wordsworth
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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William Blake
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John Keats
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Detailed explanation-1: -As a poet and artist, William Blake had a highly personal response to John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667). According to one story, Thomas Butts found Blake and his wife in their summer house in Lambeth, nude and reciting parts of the poem.
Detailed explanation-2: -This striking set of etchings illustrating John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) was produced in 1896 by the British printmaker and painter, William Strang (1859–1921).
Detailed explanation-3: -The greatest epic poem in the English language, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, has divided critics – but its influence on English literature is second only to Shakespeare’s, writes Benjamin Ramm. Milton’s Paradise Lost is rarely read today.
Detailed explanation-4: -John Milton, (born December 9, 1608, London, England-died November 8?, 1674, London?), English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, considered the most significant English author after William Shakespeare. Milton is best known for Paradise Lost, widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English.
Detailed explanation-5: -William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.