Selected Poems of Milton

Author: Milton
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Publish Date: 1998-02-01
Features: Holds a very high position in the history of British literature. For three hundred years, like Shakespeare, he has been subjected to mixed reviews and judgments, and has finally been recognized as a great poet. In the 1920s and 1930s, revolutionaries in British poetry, represented by T.S. Eliot, fiercely attacked Milton because his poetic style was too elevated, his language excessively ornate, grand, and full of classical and foreign flavors, which violated the demands of the revolutionaries. By 1947, after the wave of poetic revolution in Britain subsided, Eliot wrote an article on Milton again, reaffirming him as a great poet, a model for poets today①. Generations pass, and geniuses emerge, each dominating the literary scene for several years; after the geniuses, the literary world often feels desolate. After Shakespeare, there were no outstanding playwrights; after Milton, epic poetry became a lost art.