Poems Ancient and Modern

Poems Ancient and Modern

Today’s Poem: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint

Even at his most personal, Milton speaks of public things

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Eugène Delacroix, Milton Dictated Paradise Lost to His Daughters, 1826 (Wikimedia Commons)
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