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John Milton: Party of the Devil

Art of Darkness

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Milton's Greatness as a Poet

Milton has had an outsized influence on English letters. Milton was blind for the last 20 years of his life, including when he wrote Paradise Laws. T.S. Eliot thinks he committed crimes against English,. The most important fact about Milton, for my purpose, is his blindness.

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