FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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“How Soon Hath Time”
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“Captain or Colonel”
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“Avenge O Lord”
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“Drink to Me only with thine eyes”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is ‘The Passionate Pilgrim ’.
Detailed explanation-2: -Milton wrote poetry and prose between 1632 and 1674, and is most famous for his epic poetry. Special Collections and Archives holds a variety of Milton’s major works, including Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, L’Allegro, and Il Penseroso. Paradise Lost is one of the most recognized works in English literature.
Detailed explanation-3: -The outstanding example of the English pastoral elegy is John Milton’s “Lycidas” (1638), written on the death of Edward King, a college friend.
Detailed explanation-4: -Milton writes twenty-three sonnets, five in Italian, the rest in English, and one caudal sonnet.
Detailed explanation-5: -Brief Notes, a reply to a royalist sermon preached in the last weeks before the Restoration, was Milton’s last publication for some years. His political career was over, and his life was now in danger.