
Ep 31 - Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I)
Hardcore Literature
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Paradise Lost, Shakespeare or Milton?
Milton could not shake off Shakespeare's influence and what we see in Paradise Lost is the art of the soliloquy. If we place juxtapose soliloquies from Hamlet and Satan back to back beside each other, can we tell which is which? Now someone who's well read will say yes because they will notice the fame of the lines speaks for itself. The lives of the poets is worth picking up just to see Samuel Johnson rag on Milton alone,. He really lays into Milton, he does not like him but has extreme utmost praise for Milton's Paradise Lost.
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