John Milton Quote

Thus Milton refines the question down to a matter of faith, said Coleridge, bringing the lecture to a close, and a kind of faith more independent, autonomous - more truly strong, as a matter of fact -...

No, never mind, I didn't think so. Mead, Dante's theme is man-not a man.' Lowell said finally with a mild patience that he reserved only for students. The Italians forever twitch at Dante's sleeves tr...

Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.

He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in religion or politics, or society, he gave up his heart to the living sp...

Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote of Hell and Heaven from above and below, respectively, not from the inside: safer advantages.