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“There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.”

Sound Poet Tests Function Mute Hallucinations Milton

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.”

Reason Religion Party Liberty Hell Knowing Poet Devil Angel Milton Fetters

Author:William Blake

“Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.”

Names Sound Poet Fame England Rome Greece Milton

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

“All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.”

Ifs Has Beens Gone Poet Wings Originality Feathers Stolen Countrymen Plagiarism Milton Indebted

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.”

Kind Poet Terror Intense Frost Transcendental Milton

Book:The French Revolution: a History

Source: The French Revolution: a History

“We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?”

Needs Book Home Challenges Race Modern Poet Murder Suicide Novelists Theme Destroying Milton Melville

Author:Edward Abbey

“Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets." Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden, scissored, patched, and frayed.”

May Suffering Literature Poet Productions Immortal Favourite Glances Ruined Milton Withered Swarms Quoting Vandals

Book:Quotology

Source: Quotology

“John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that spur.”

Writing Years May Lost Poet Fame Six Paradise Spurs Milton Revising

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim