id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 33248 Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Milton's Tercentenary An address delivered before the Modern Language Club of Yale University on Milton's Three Hundredth Birthday. .txt text/plain 5260 292 71 the sonnets, in _Paradise Lost_ and in _Samson Agonistes_ where Milton For Milton is the scholar poet. Be that as it may, all Milton's writings in prose and verse are so Milton liked to be in the minority, to bear up against the pressure of Milton was the poet of English Puritanism, and therefore year of the settlement of New Haven, when Milton went to Italy for mention of Milton, as a controversialist if not as a poet. Milton's contemporary, Francis Quarles, were much read in New England. nothing to show that _Paradise Lost_ was much read in New England prior poets than Milton if they had read the latter's works. Was Milton's Puritanism hurtful to his art? It is curious how Milton's early poems have changed places in favor Milton's juvenilia are more read than _Paradise Lost_, and by In _Paradise Lost_ the poet speaks with Herbert, not in the Puritan Milton. ./cache/33248.txt ./txt/33248.txt