Milton composed his early verse in Latin,in the fashion of a classically educated person. In 3rd year at Cambridge he expresses his desire to abandon such fashionable poetry in order to write in his native language. Like Homer & Virgil before would be the epic poet of the English national. | PARADISE LOST Milton composed his early verse in Latin,in the fashion of a classically educated person. In 3rd year at Cambridge he expresses his desire to abandon such fashionable poetry in order to write in his native language. Like Homer & Virgil before would be the epic poet of the English national. The poet vacation to which Milton was heir is both nationalistic and religious in character. He plays the role of poet-historian as he chronicled the religious history of a people. A sense of religiosity and patriotism drive Milton’s work. On the one hand he felt he could best serve God by following his vacation as a poet .His poetry would on the other hand served England by putting before it noble and religious ideas in the highest poetic form. In other words Milton sought to write poetry which,if not directly or overtly didactic,would serve to teach delightfully. The body of work emerging from these twin impulses-witnesses his development as a Christian poet and a national | PARADISE LOST Milton composed his early verse in Latin,in the fashion of a classically educated person. In 3rd year at Cambridge he expresses his desire to abandon such fashionable poetry in order to write in his native language. Like Homer & Virgil before would be the epic poet of the English national. The poet vacation to which Milton was heir is both nationalistic and religious in character. He plays the role of poet-historian as he chronicled the religious history of a people. A sense of religiosity and patriotism drive Milton’s work. On the one hand he felt he could best serve God by following his vacation as a poet .His poetry would on the other hand served England by putting before it noble and religious ideas in the highest poetic form. In other words Milton sought to write poetry which,if not directly or overtly didactic,would serve to teach delightfully. The body of work emerging from these twin impulses-witnesses his development as a Christian poet and a national bard. Finally it is in Paradise lost that Milton harmonizes his two voices as a poet and became the Christian singer,as it were of epic English poem. In Paradise Lost Milton was not only justifying God’s ways to humans in general;he was justifying his ways to the English people between 1640-1660. He was telling them why they had failed to establish the good society by deposing the king and why they had welcomed back the monarchy. Like Adam and Eve,they had failed through their own weakness,their own lack of faith,their own passions and greed,their own sin. God was not to blamed for humanity’s expulsion from Eden nor was He to blame the trials and corruptions that befell England during the time of common wealth under Olives Cromwell. Paradise Lost was more than a work of it was a moral and political treatise,a poetic explanation for the course that English history had taken. Milton began Paradise lost in 1658 and finished in 1667. He was blind during much of it. Milton .
