Hell yeah!

@BenCallan

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

@mauricedavis2160

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah to the tenth power!!! Great literature endures!!!🙏📖, Reading is fundamental

Thank you for this brief but concise biography of John Milton, well done Sirs, bravo

@BenCallan

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it useful.

@mauricedavis2160

2 жыл бұрын

@@BenCallan Inspiring for sure and beautifully written 🙏✌️

Thanks for upload.

@BenCallan

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your interest.

For piety, go to the Bible. For feelings, have a copy of PL and PR by your side. Read PL and PR with your heart, your body, your tongue, your mouth, your ears, your eyes, and feel how his use of words, his syntax, his vision and insight, his style, can lift you much more than mere music does.

@BenCallan

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more

For understanding Milton's reactions to his own blindness, read Samson Agoniste.

My G Milton

@BenCallan

3 жыл бұрын

verily

Good.

He hella sus tho

@BenCallan

3 жыл бұрын

Gielgud was

I found out I’m a descendant of this man (I’m an Australian)…. This world is a strange place… lol When my uncle informed me, I researched and straight away I thought I wonder how he would feel looking at my weird art in a modern time. Very odd this eye sight tho …. As I’m. A visual artist

@junespoesy

2 жыл бұрын

are you sure?

@symphonyinkart

2 жыл бұрын

@@junespoesy why

@8O8DRAX

Жыл бұрын

nice!!! Great author as mysterious.

@colbygarciamusic

Жыл бұрын

I am too! And I live in the U.S. , Small World!

@symphonyinkart

Жыл бұрын

@@colbygarciamusic oh wow !’cool. Musician as well ! Lovely

Audio is terrible. Red thumb.

I have read the Iliad and the Odyssey, and four books of the Aeneid. I intend to read at least parts of the Divine Comedy. But I cannot stomach Paradise Lost. It's like going back to Sunday school. Laying aside his eloquence, Milton was first to last a true believer. He spent a good deal of his life as a pamphleteer and to me, Paradise Lost is nothing more than elevated pamphleteering. Ugh. I know he is revered as an equal to Shakespeare, but I can't stomach it. Sorry.

@BenCallan

2 жыл бұрын

I certainly understand where you are coming from. However, his views were actually very heterodoxical and controversial even today (not to mention at the time). I'd suggest reading the recent biography 'Poet of Revolution' which puts his pamphleteering in context. He wanted to establish a continuity with the great orators of the past such as Cicero and develop the skills to create poetry that was politically engaged yet still with a transcendent power, much like Dante. Although he can be initially difficult, I would suggest continuing as the reward is almost without parallel in English literature. Best regards.