The depiction of Dalila, and women, is similar to that in Milton's divorce tracts and, as John Guillory states and then asks, " We scarcely need to observe that Samson Agonistes assumes the subjection of women, a practice to which Milton gives his unequivocal endorsement ; but is there any sense in which that practice of subjection is modified by the contemporaneous form of the sexual divisions of labor ?".

The first synod took particular aim at John Milton's divorce tracts, beginning a polemic relationship with Milton.

* Drummond's Poems, with Cypresse Grove, the History, and a few of the minor tracts, collected in 1656 and edited by Edward Phillips, Milton's nephew.

Milton's name being fourth is neither too high nor too low to be assigned to the arbitrary action of vice-chancellor, proctor, master, or other mighty hand.

He compared the Canopeans and Shammat to Milton's God and Satan in Paradise Lost, but said that while Lucifer's " overthrow [...] of his writerly creator is an awesome thing ", in Shikasta Lessing's human race with no free will is too passive and of no interest.

Professor Karbiener, a Ph. D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, gave a lecture at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in 2004 on "... Milton's Satan and his impact on countercultural artistic movements from William Blake to the Beat poets in essence, the artists " between " Milton and Lindall, the radical artistic legacy.

In Jack Milton's film: " Please Stand By ", David Peel portrays and stars as a media hippie revolutionary, who hijacks a network television van and jams the airwaves with unauthorized radical broadcasts to the nation.

As a result, " Lucifer has become a by-word for Satan in the Church and in popular literature ", as in Dante Alighieri's Inferno and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

File: Paradise Lost 19. jpg | Gustave Doré's illustration for Milton's Paradise Lost, Lucifer yielding before Gabriel

John Milton's pamphlet Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, published in 1644, was one of the first publications advocating freedom of the press.

The trilogy functions in part as a retelling and inversion of John Milton's epic Paradise Lost ; with Pullman commending humanity for what Milton saw as its most tragic failing.

* John Milton's sonnet " To the Nightingale " contrasts the symbolism of the nightingale as a bird for lovers, with the cuckoo as the bird that called when wives were unfaithful to ( or " cuckolded ") their husbands.

It incorporated in 1876 by David Harshbarger a large land holder, and is named for Milton Reese, Milton's first postmaster, in the vicinity at the time the town was established.

The inspiration for the name came from John Milton's Lord of Misrule in his masque Comus.

In 1747 he wrote an article for the Gentleman's Magazine suggesting that John Milton's Paradise Lost was largely a plagiarism from the Adamus Exul ( 1601 ) of Hugo Grotius, the Sarcotis ( 1654 ) of Jacob Masen ( Masenius, 1606 – 1681 ), and the Poemata Sacra ( 1633 ) of Andrew Ramsay ( 1574 – 1659 ).

Pastoral opera remained popular throughout the 17th-century, and not just in Italy, as is shown by the French genre of pastorale héroïque, Englishman Henry Lawes's music for Milton's Comus ( not to mention John Blow's Venus and Adonis ), and Spanish zarzuela.

He appears again in the image " Milton's Dream " as illustrated for Il Penseroso.

The best known is the Epitaph on Bion ( i. e. Bion of Smyrna ), which had a long history of influence on the pastoral lament for a poet ( compare Milton's Lycidas ).

* Amyntor, or a Defence of Milton's Life Toland's earlier book Containing ( I ) a general apology for all writings of that kind, ( II ) a catalogue of books attributed in the primitive times to Jesus Christ, his apostles and other eminent persons, with several important remarks relating to the canon of Scripture, ( III ) a complete history of the book Eikon Basilike proving Dr Gauden and not King Charles I to be the author of it.

One of Sir Edward de Lisle's major works, Les Quatre Genii en Conseil, is inspired by Martin's illustration for John Milton's Paradise Lost.

His later work included illustrations for new editions of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Milton's Paradise Lost, Tennyson's The Idylls of the King, The Works of Thomas Hood, and The Divine Comedy.

The Areopagitica, published in 1644 under the full title Areopagitica: A speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England, was John Milton's response to the British parliament re-introducing government licensing of printers, hence publishers.

Not wanting to kill, he volunteered for the Friends ' Ambulance Unit, FAU, working in France immediately behind the Western Front, and carrying a copy of Milton's poems with him.

He planned a school for the sons of gentlemen, to be conducted on new principles, and this probably was the occasion of his friend John Milton's Tractate on Education, addressed to him in 1644, and of William Petty's Two Letters on the same subject, in 1647 and 1648.

Milton's depiction of Lucifer was cited by Tolkien as an inspiration for the character of Sauron.

The books selected for testing the knowledge of English were Milton's Paradise Lost, Robertson's Histories, or a similar classical standard.

Prior to Ambrose Philips, John Philips, whose The Splendid Shilling of 1701 was an imitation of John Milton's blank verse for a discussion of the miseries of poverty, was championed by Addison's Kit-Kats.

* On 14 December 2008 BBC Radio 3 broadcast a production of the play as part of its commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Milton's birth, adapted for radio and directed by John Tydeman.

As an actor his manner was charged with an excess of gravity and deliberation ; his pauses were so portentous as in some situations to appear even ludicrous ; but he was well fitted for the delivery of Milton's poetry, and for the portrayal of the graver roles in his repertory.

In 1823, Martin was commissioned by Samuel Prowett to illustrate John Milton's Paradise Lost, for which he was paid 2000 guineas.

Venn and others have dealt with sports and pastimes at Cambridge in Milton's day with not very specific results.

Together they founded a distinct school of poetry which outlived the chilling influence of the Restoration ..... In Milton's day, most of the Cantabrigians, Crashaw, Joseph Beaumont, Thomas Robinson, and others wrote more or less in their manner.

An article by Charles McGrath in the New York Times the day before the ball and ensuing festival, along with the opening ceremony with the " firing up " of Milton's head and the reading of the " testament of the poet " by Arthur Kirmss, temporarily scandalized the exhibit among Milton scholars worldwide who thought Kirmss ’ ceramic bust of Milton looked like Milton's nemesis King Charles I.

Randy Newman's Faust is a 1993 musical by American musician and songwriter Randy Newman, who based the work on the classic story of Faust, borrowing elements from the version by Goethe, as well as Milton's Paradise Lost, but updating the story to the modern day, and infusing it with humorous cynicism.

Although he did not share Milton's religious and political views, and seems, to judge from the free character of his Mysteries of Love and Eloquence ( 1658 ), to have undergone a certain revulsion from his Puritan upbringing, he remained on affectionate terms with his uncle to the end.

In 2003, Neville did a stage reading of John Milton's Samson Agonistes, opposite Claire Bloom at Bryn Mawr College at the behest of poet Karl Kirchwey.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Work Without Hope ( 1825 ), also refers to the herb, likely referencing Milton's earlier work.

Dryads are mentioned in Milton's Paradise Lost, in Coleridge, and in Thackeray's work The Virginians.

This reading, particularly of John Milton's Paradise Lost ( which he later translated into French prose ), would have a deep influence on his own literary work.

He abandoned graduate work on 17th-century religious language with particular reference to Milton's Paradise Lost, to pursue his career in comedy.

In Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, the ideal beauty is Dulcinea whose " hairs are gold "; in Milton's poem Paradise Lost the noble and innocent Adam and Eve have " golden tresses ", the protagonist-womanizer in Guy de Maupassant's novel Bel Ami who " recalled the hero of the popular romances " has " slightly reddish chestnut blond hair ", while near the end of J. R. R. Tolkien's work The Lord of the Rings, the especially favorable year following the War of the Ring was signified in the Shire by an exceptional number of blonde-haired children.

Wordsworth planned to write this work together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, their joint intent being to surpass John Milton's Paradise Lost ( Table Talk II. 70-71 ; IG3 ).

His most important work is Theatrum poetarum ( 1675 ), a list of the chief poets of all ages and countries, but principally of the English poets, with short critical notes and a prefatory Discourse of the Poets and Poetry, which has usually been traced to Milton's hand.

It is uncertain as to when the work was composed, which leaves the possibility that it was an early work that was filled with Milton's ideas about the Civil War or it was a later work that incorporates his despair over the Restoration.

He also illustrated Pamlela, a novel by Samuel Richardson, Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, Smollet's translation of Don Quixote, and other well-known work.

Grosart saw in this work one of the sources of Milton's conception of Satan.

Among the many rose bushes of all kinds stands the Fountain of the Falling Angel, erected in 1922, whose main sculpture El Angel Caído ( at the top ) is a work by Ricardo Bellver ( 1845 – 1924 ) inspired by a passage from John Milton's Paradise Lost, which represents Lucifer falling from Heaven.

The work is a verse rendition of the Book of Genesis, offering parallels to John Milton's Paradise Lost.

The title of the book, like Milton's poem, recalls the biblical story of Samson, who was captured by the Philistines, his eyes burned out, and taken to Gaza, where he was forced to work grinding grain in a mill.

The Serious and Faithfull Representation ( January 1649 ) of 47 London ministers, a work against Oliver Cromwell, arose from an assembly in the College ; Milton's The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates from February of that year is in part an answer, and snipes at the ministers.

Rajan's scholarly work covered a wide range of English poetry, but returned frequently to Milton and particularly to Milton's Paradise Lost.

" At the same time, some critics such as George Saintsbury in the Cambridge History of English and American Literature have condemned this work and Milton's later Defensio secunda, asserting that they show, in Saintbury's words, " a good deal of bandying of authority and of wearisome rebutting on particular points.

It was answered on Milton's behalf by his nephew John Phillips, although Milton is reported to have given his nephew's work " Examination and Polishment " before publication.