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John Milton: Party of the Devil

Art of Darkness

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The Great Fire

There was a widely read tract sometime in the mid 1650s called Reggie Sanguinis clamor that targeted Milton specifically about the Rajasites likening Milton to the Cyclops. Funnily enough, Milton mistakes who the screed is actually written by and spends the next couple years just dog piling the wrong person in public. He's trying to find a way I think what most people do who survive losing something like your eyesight or whatever. You try to find sort of the silver lining in it or find ways to psychologically deal with it,. And we definitely see Milton doing that.

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