John Milton
3 Bücher
- You get Milton arguing that truth needs to wrestle with error in public, in prose that can suddenly flare into “a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit.” It’s dense, digressive, and deeply seventeenth-century, but rewarding if you enjoy ideas being sharpened into rhetoric.
- Satan gets all the best lines, and watching him talk himself into ruin is half the pull; the verse is dense and takes a slow ear, but once the rhythm clicks it carries you. Read it aloud when you can, even a page at a time.