376 Why John Milton? (with Joe Moshenska)
The History of Literature
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The Biography of a Poet
John milton is the rare poet where you could write interesting biography of him, even if he had never written a line of poetry. The poems are ultimately inexplicable, right? So what i wanted to do was find a way of bringing the life and the poems together, but that kind of respected that, that inexplicableness. And one things i try to do in the book is o think about about poems as sort of machines for transforming time rit.
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