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    Milton is an epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810. Its hero is John Milton, who returns from Heaven and unites with...
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    "And did those feet in ancient time" is a poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton: A Poem in Two Books, one of a collection of writings...
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  • college in Milton, Wisconsin Milton, Rock County, Wisconsin, a town surrounding the city Milton: A Poem in Two Books, an epic poem by William Blake Milton (album)...
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    epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over...
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    or The Four Zoas (begun 1797, unfinished; abandoned c. 1804) Milton: A Poem in Two Books (1804–1810) Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804–1820)...
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    Blake's Cottage (category Country houses in West Sussex)
    preface to his Milton: A Poem in Two Books, which were later set to music as the hymn "Jerusalem". The cottage, now owned by a trust, is a Grade II* listed...
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    John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank...
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    protagonists as if he was physically in the story. William Blake is said to depict himself in the novel Milton: A Poem in Two Books.[citation needed] The Divine...
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    Samson Agonistes (category Poetry by John Milton)
    1671, as the title page of that volume states: "Paradise Regained / A Poem / In IV Books / To Which Is Added / Samson Agonistes". It is generally thought...
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    Milton's 1645 Poems is a collection, divided into separate English and Latin sections, of John Milton's youthful poetry in a variety of genres, including...
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    in the lines of the famous poem, And did those feet in ancient time, by William Blake which first appeared in the preface to his epic Milton: A Poem in...
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    Blake lived in North Lambeth, London, at 13 Hercules Buildings, Hercules Road.[40] In his epic 'Milton: A Poem in Two Books, the poet John Milton leaves Heaven...
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  • Edward Phillips (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Office in Chancery, and his wife Anne, only sister of John Milton, the poet. Edward Phillips the younger was born in Strand, London. His father died in 1631...
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    Felpham (category Villages in West Sussex)
    in Felpham for three years between 1800 and 1803. He wrote Milton: A Poem in Two Books, while living in a house now named Blake’s Cottage. The poem contains...
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  • John Phillips (author) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    and a nephew of John Milton. Anne Phillips, mother of John and Edward, was the sister of John Milton, the poet. In 1652, John Phillips published a Latin...
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  • Milton wrote poetry. Two poems are known to have existed: a sonnet and a poem dedicated to John Lane—both unpublished. Milton's main creative outlet,...
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  • belonging to the devil's party, Blake wrote Milton: a Poem which has Milton, like Satan, rejecting a life in Heaven. Paradise Lost influenced Mary Shelley...
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    Heroick Poem in X Books appeared in 1695. He supported the Glorious Revolution, and Prince Arthur was a celebration of William III. The poem was based...
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    Ah! Sun-flower (category 1794 poems)
    2307/3719808. JSTOR 3719808. Blake, William (1804–1810). Milton : a poem in two books. pp. book 1, plate 27 (26 in some copies), line 44. Damon, S. Foster (1924)...
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  • The Prelude (category 1799 poems)
    containing the first two parts of the later poem. The 1805 Prelude, which was found and printed by Ernest de Sélincourt in 1926, in 13 books. The 1850 Prelude...
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  • the phrase is attributed to John Milton. This phrase evolved over time. Its origin is attributed to Milton's 1645 poem L'Allegro, which includes lines...
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    Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream (/ˌkʊblə ˈkɑːn/) is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. It is sometimes...
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    the Most Challenged Books of the 21st Century. During the Great Depression in California, two migrant field workers – George Milton, an intelligent but...
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    Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. The poem's origins are unknown, but it...
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    John Philips (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature)
    books written on the same subject in prose which do not contain so much truth as that poem". Samuel Johnson objected that the blank verse of Milton,...
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    An Essay on Man (category 1734 poems)
    "An Essay on Man" is a poem published by Alexander Pope in 1733–1734. It was dedicated to Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (pronounced 'Bull-en-brook')...
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    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (category 1790s books)
    introduction of a short poem entitled "Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden'd air". William Blake claims that John Milton was a true poet and...
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  • Archive: Milton Acorn - Biography, 1 poem (Knowing I Live in a Dark Age), poetry analysis, and bibliography. Canadian Poetry Online: Milton Acorn - Biography...
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    "Ulysses" is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), written in 1833 and published in 1842 in his well-received...
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    composed poetry, and two poems, never published, are known to have existed: a sonnet and a poem dedicated to John Lane. Milton was born 6:30 a.m. on Friday 9...
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