John Milton

John Milton

Died: November 8, 1674, Bunhill Row, London, United Kingdom Website Facebook X/Twitter

John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.

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A Slower Pace Worth Racing Towards

by Ovid and others in Figures of Speech

Life is, in many ways, a race. Ever since the great Charles Darwin cracked the code and thrust into the limelight the evolutionary process of natural selection, we have become increasingly aware of just how deeply entrenched we are in this race and how high the stakes are.

Lycidas

by John Milton

Can you spot the Horatian allusions and echos from Spencer and Virgil. The meaning of the meaning is contained within the first four lines and beyond.

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