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John Milton: Party of the Devil

Art of Darkness

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Milton's Puritan Iconoclasm

Milton was writing diaries in many letters, and never once mentions a piece of art. A scholar suggested maybe it's his Puritan iconoclasm. Milton finds out that his friend has passed away in London. His first major poem is about trying to find consolation for death,. Other people's death and your own.

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