All 7 Uses of
John Milton
in
A Room of One's Own
- Certainly he wrote an essay—the name escapes me—about the manuscript of one of Milton's poems which he saw here.†
Chpt 1 *Milton = English poet considered by some to be best after Shakespeare (1608-1674)
- To think of Milton changing the words in that poem seemed to him a sort of sacrilege.†
Chpt 1
- This led me to remember what I could of LYCIDAS and to amuse myself with guessing which word it could have been that Milton had altered, and why.†
Chpt 1
- Indeed my aunt's legacy unveiled the sky to me, and substituted for the large and imposing figure of a gentleman, which Milton recommended for my perpetual adoration, a view of the open sky.†
Chpt 2
- The reason perhaps why we know so little of Shakespeare—compared with Donne or Ben Jonson or Milton—is that his grudges and spites and antipathies are hidden from us.†
Chpt 3
- Milton and Ben Jonson had a dash too much of the male in them.†
Chpt 6
- if we look past Milton's bogey, for no human being should shut out the view;†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(John Milton) English poet considered by some to be best after Shakespeare and remembered best for Paradise Lost (1608-1674)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Milton is also frequently seen referencing other people with that name.