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The article presents the author's view concerning Tom MacFaul persuasive account of the English mock-epic tradition's emergence out of Edmund Spenser's, Ben Jonson's, and William Davenant's early experiment in the form. He states that MacFaul has indicated how the three poets' experiments with the mock-heroic form contributed to their wider efforts at laureate. He suspects that MacFaul has already considered the significance of George Chapman and John Milton to the story he tells. He suggests for a broader narrative of MacFaul's work to clear in some detail.

An article is presented which discusses the late works of John Milton. It offers the author's insights on some interrelated propositions on Milton's epic, which he cites as the horseless epic. The author compares Milton's works with "Iliad" by Homer, and "Aeneid" by Virgil and distinguishes Milton from the two epic poets. The author also presents a literary analysis of "Paradise Lost," and stresses that it is a product of a Pegasean inspiration because it was a pedestrian poem.

This essay traces the process of imaginative filiation by which John Milton, Governor of Florida during the American Civil War, came to be regarded as a descendant of John Milton the poet. The Florida Miltons trace a mode of fantasized association with the poet that parallels both Benedict Anderson's understanding of nationalism as an 'imagined political community' and Sigmund Freud's notion of individual development as elaborated through the 'family romance'. As a further irony, Peter Ackroyd's novel Milton in America offers a derogatory parallel to the same fantasy of filiation — a parallel that illustrates the pliable nature of literary history when subject to specific literary appropriations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the poem "Ephitaphium Damonis," by John Milton which he wrote in the memory of his friend Charles Diodate. Views of Milton on the institution of marriage; Use of animal love by Milton in expressing his thoughts on marriage; Opinion of Milton regarding same sex companionship.

The author focuses on sin and death in the context of John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and the general Epistle of James in the New Testament. He states that Milton has revised lust as the character Satan that deflects the reader's attention from the problem of sexual desire. He relates Satan as an object of corrupt sexuality to a verse in the poem. He cites one of the reasons for Milton's concern about matters copulatory.

No one has ever traced the precise extent of John Armstrong debt to John Milton. However, not only is it true that his poem “The Art of Preserving Health” reads like an unconscious parody of John Milton's “Paradise Lost”; the deeply Miltonic nature of Armstrong' poem also comprises its single most risible attribute. On the broad structure level, Armstrong's Miltonism operates through a consistent diminution of theme and subject matter, and this dimunition produces an undeniably comic effect when coupled with Armstrong's heavy-handed use of Miltonic diction and prosodic techniques.