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

each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we escape a little from the common sitting-room and see human beings not always in their relation to each other but in relation to reality; and the sky, too, and the trees or whatever it may be in themselves; if we look past Milton's bogey, for no human being should shut out the view; if we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women, then the opportunity will come and the dead poet who was Shakespeare's sister will put on the body which sh†
Chpt 6

Definitions:

(1) (John Milton)
English poet considered by some to be best after Shakespeare and remembered best for Paradise Lost (1608-1674)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Milton is also frequently seen referencing other people with that name.