The Life and Times of John Milton

We're going to read a letter he wrote to Charles Diodati at one point because it contains sort of his earliest poetic manifesto, I guess. He decides some time in his teen years are very early 20s that there's a special place in heaven reserved for poets. This is how John Rogers puts it more or less. Five casters. Reserve for poets. Oh, wait, no, this is to there's aspecial place in hell reserved for poets and to be a great poet, you must be a virgin. Yeah. Go ahead. You guys it might be hopefully people do after this and they're not sick of it. 1620 Milton attends the school associated with St.