Category: Biographies
When a man spends a day walking in hilly country he is often astonished at the new shape taken on by a mountain when it is looked at from a new point of view. Sometimes the change is so great as to make it almost unrecognizable. He who has seen Snowdon from Capel-Curig is relu...
We know far more about Milton than about any other English poet born so long ago. There are three reasons for this. One is that from his earliest years he was very much interest...
5. Chapter 5_Paradise Regained_, like the _Odyssey_, the _Aeneid_ and the second part of _Faust_, has been an inevitable victim of the human taste for comparison. It cannot fail to be compa...
4. Chapter 4_Paradise Lost_ is in several ways one of the most wonderful of the works of man. And not least in the circumstances of its composition. The Restoration found Milton blind, and...
3. Chapter 3We think to-day of Milton chiefly as the author of _Paradise Lost_, as we think of Wren as the builder of St. Paul's. And we are right. When a man has been the creator of the on...
1. Chapter 1When a man spends a day walking in hilly country he is often astonished at the new shape taken on by a mountain when it is looked at from a new point of view. Sometimes the chan...