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Search - John Milton - 1608-1674 - A Lecture Delivered In The Parochial Hall - St. Bartholomew's - Dublin - On The Occasion Of Milton's Tercentenary - December 9 - 1908

John Milton 16081674 A Lecture Delivered In The Parochial Hall St Bartholomew's Dublin On The Occasion Of Milton's Tercentenary December 9 1908
Author: John Cooke

JOHN MILTON HAKESPEARES not excepted, no name is better known in the households of the land than Miltons. The popular Protestant conception of hell is largely Miltonic. The nursery teaching of the temptation in Eden, the rebellion of Satan and his punishment are traditionally Miltonic also, and much of the Puritan tone and colour of the sacred t... more »hemes treated of in the great epic have entered into the religious thought of the ages from the poets death until now. But with the average reader the knowledge of the poet and his works is very limited. His wish had been that he should a fit audience find though few, and this has been fully realised. That such should be so with one who has left so indelible an impression upon the literature and religious thought of the land is strange, yet true but the reason lies chiefly in the very nature and character of the works, and to a less, but still important, extent in the character of the poet himself. 5 JOHN MILTON m Miltons genius unfolded itself in childhood, and it was fortunate for him that his father was a man of good education, a man of refinement, with considerable musical culture, and that he was endowed with sufficient means to be able to afford the best education of the time to his son. He gave him a full University career at Cambridge, allowed him to live the studious life of a scholar for years, and sent him to the Continent, where he lived for a time among the most cultured men of the age, in some of its chief cities. Up to the age of thirtytwo, Milton had not earned, nor was it necessary for him to earn anything. But Miltons life was not idle. In addition to writing his early poetry, a small quantity, but among the choicest in literature, he had been a close student he became an accomplished scholar and master of many languages, and among the great poets none bring to their verse such a range of learning as he. Scholarship did not hamper Miltons genius as there is a danger of its hampering the genius of lesser men. He bears the burden of his erudition lightly, and from the vast storehouse of knowledge at his command, he weaves into the warp and woof of his prose and verse names of persons and places, incidents and illustrations drawn from the history and literature of many lands, so that Milton requires from 6 JOHN MILTON the student of his works a greater equipment than any other poet. For this reason the close study of Milton will ever be for the fit though few. The picture of Milton as a child was painted by Cornelius Jansen, a young Dutch artist, who about that time had settled in Blackfriars. Milton retained his great beauty in youth and manhood, and he was called after his college at Cambridge, The Lady of Christs. Even when he became blind his appearance did not suffer, for his eyes looked undimmed, and he boasted, and boasted truly, that the only false thing about him was his eyes. No man ever took his life more seriously than Milton, nor lived one of greater moral purity, nor cherished more lofty ideals and yet, everything that could be said to blacken his character was said in his own day and long after it. He had many times to defend himself against the grossest charges, which he does in passages amongst the noblest and loftiest in English prose. That he was capable all through life, even when he had fallen on dark and evil days, of inspiring friendship and affection we have ample proof...

ISBN-13: 9781408636152
ISBN-10: 1408636158
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 56
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