Milton
Unknown
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Description
Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote his essay on Milton, here in a New York edition of 1900. Toward the close of the year 1823, it begins, a deputy keeper of the state papers found a large Latin manuscript among the presses of his office. With it lay corrected copies of the foreign despatches Milton had written as Latin secretary.
The find sets the essay moving between the poet's public life and his verse. Macaulay's Milton is a champion of liberty first and a poet by the same fire. The essay, one of the most famous of the Edinburgh Review pieces, made its young author's name in 1825. It reads with a march and a glitter that still carry the reader, whether he agrees with its judgments or not.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 111 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |