The two most famous descriptions of Heaven are given in Dante Alighieri's Pardiso ( of the Divine Comedy ) and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

The massacre prompted John Milton's famous sonnet, " On the Late Massacre in Piedmont ".

The most famous pastoral elegy in English is John Milton's " Lycidas " ( 1637 ), written on the death of Edward King, a fellow student at Cambridge University.

Ormus is also mentioned in a famous passage from John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost ( Book II, lines 1-5 ):

He also edited and translated John Milton's De doctrina christiana, which was found in the State Paper office in 1823, and formed the text of Macaulay's famous essay on Milton.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

* 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.

In the invocation to Book 7 of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, the poet invokes Urania to aid his narration of the creation of the cosmos, though he cautions that it is " he meaning, not the name I call " ( 7. 5 ).

* 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.

1617 ), whose name is associated with the production of Milton's Comus ; and the latter was the son of Sir Thomas Egerton ( 1540 – 1617 ), Queen Elizabeth's Lord Keeper and James I.

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.

* axial tunes (" A Hard Day's Night ", " Peggy Sue ", Marvin Gaye's " Can I Get A Witness ", and Roy Milton's " Do the Hucklebuck ")

*" Milton's Urania: The Meaning, Not the Name I Call ", in collaboration with W. B.

*" An Analysis of John Milton's Paradise Lost I.

On 14 October 1829 the chairman of Milton's committee of 1826, George Strickland, wrote to Milton: " I consider the County at large is under deep obligations to Lord Fitzwilliam and yourself for the great exertions you have made and for the intrepid defence of liberal and right principles — during periods of great danger ".

" The Humanist Tradition and Milton's Satan: The Conservative as Revolutionary ," Studies in English Literature, 1500 – 1900, Vol.

The poem is an attempt to " vindicate the ways of God to Man ," a variation on Milton's attempt in Paradise Lost to " justify the ways of God to Man " ( 1. 26 ).

In John Milton's " Paradise Lost ," Peor is said to be the other name of the fallen angel Chemos, who " entic'd / Israel in Sittim on thir march from Nile / To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.

Terrance Lindall During his year-long celebration of John Milton's 400th birthday ( which began December 8, 2008 ), Terrance Lindall created " The Paradise Lost Gold Illuminated Scroll ," a scroll that reads from right to left like a Torah.

" Milton's ' How soon hath time ': A Colossus in a Cherrystone ," ELH, 49 ( 1982 ), 449-67 ( with Jordan Flyer ).

He also used the pseudonym Orpheus Scrannel ( alludes to Milton's Lycidas ).

Published in 1818, it was based on a number of sources, including Ovid's myth of Prometheus ( indeed, the novel is subtitled " The Modern Prometheus "), Milton's Paradise Lost, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and William Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek.

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

'" He goes on to explain the " daemonic ": " Opium was the avenging daemon or alastor of Coleridge's life, his dark or fallen angel, his experiential acquaintance with Milton's Satan.

Sir Milton's government was based on the rule of law and the notion of separation of powers, with multiparty political institutions and fairly viable representative structures.

Smaug the dragon with his golden hoard may be seen as an example of the traditional relationship between evil and metallurgy as collated in the depiction of Pandæmonium with its " Belched fire and rolling smoke " in Milton's Paradise Lost.

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 Comus ( with music by Henry Lawes ) is described as a masque, though it is generally reckoned a pastoral play.

He published a facsimile of the Milton manuscript in the Trinity College library ( 1899 ), and edited Milton's poems with critical notes ( 1903 ).

" In addition, the term was sometimes used to dismiss a scientific principle considered by the writer to be fanciful, such as in 1855's The Principles of Metaphysical and Ethical Science, which stated that " Milton's conception of inorganic matter left to itself, without an indwelling soul, is not merely more poetical, but more philosophical and just, than the scientific romance, now generally repudiated by all rational inquirers, which represents it as necessarily imbued with the seminal principles of organization and life, and waking up by its own force from eternal quietude to eternal motion.

Gordon Campbell ( 2008 ) identifies Milton's views as " thnetopsychism ", a belief that the soul dies with the body but is resurrected at the last judgment.

The angel Raphael, along with many other prominent angels, appears in John Milton's Paradise Lost, in which he is assigned by God to re-warn Adam concerning the sin of eating of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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

* 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.

" Satan rises from the burning lake " ( 1866 ) by Gustave Doré ; a critical interpretation of the poem compares Ulysses ' final sentiments with Satan's " courage never to submit or yield " in John Milton | John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Turnbull collected the works of John Milton extensively, and the library now has holdings of Milton's works which are " ranked among the finest in the world " and " good collections of seventeenth-century poetical miscellanies and of Dryden material, ... along with fine sets of literary periodicals.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

John Aubrey states that all Milton's papers came into Phillips's hands, and in 1694 he published a translation of his Letters of State with a valuable memoir.

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.