Milton (Masterplots II: Poetry Series)
At a glance:
- Author: William Blake
- Type of Work: Epic
- Genres: Poetry, Epic, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Religion, Poetry or poets, God, Seventeenth century, Women, Divorce, Death or dying, Martyrs or martyrdom, Birds, Devils or demons, Satan or Satanism, Angels, Baptism
The Poem
William Blake’s Milton: A Poem in 2 Books, like John Milton’s Paradise Regained (1671), is a short epic poem. Instead of using the more traditional pentameter, Blake wrote Milton in “fourteeners,” a long seven-beat line that he patterned after biblical verse. Milton is named for John Milton (1608–1674), Blake’s great seventeenth century precursor, and Blake makes Milton (or his vision of Milton) the poem’s protagonist.
The first book of Milton describes the Bard’s song and Milton’s descent from Eternity to...
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