John Milton

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"All our woe, with loss of Eden, till one greater man restore us, and regain the blissful seat, sing heav'nly muse" Milton DD $1,000 J IN THE WORDS OF THE POET 2025-05-30 #9345
Scaling down to a sonnet, this "Paradise Lost" guy called time "the subtle thief of youth"; sadly, not wrong Milton $800 DJ PURE POETRY 2023-02-27 #8816
Annotations on a First Folio of Shakespeare were found to be in the handwriting of this "Paradise Lost" poet (John) Milton $200 J POETS 2022-05-17 #8642
"The Lady of Christ's College" (maybe for his fair complexion) & "The British Homer" Milton $2,000 DJ OLD POETS' NICKNAMES 2017-10-26 #7619
In the 1650s he wrote a very personal sonnet, "On His Blindness" (John) Milton $2,000 DJ POETS & POETRY 2017-02-22 #7473
"So glistered the dire snake, and into fraud / Led Eve our credulous mother, to the tree / Of prohibition, root of all our woe" (John) Milton DD $1,400 DJ DEAD POETS 2015-01-20 #6987
Wrote a sonnet "On His Blindness":JM John Milton $800 J POETS' MONOGRAMS 2012-03-19 #6336
He wrote a 1671 poem about the biblical Samson, who like him suffered blindess John Milton DD $1,200 DJ BRITISH POETS 2010-11-24 #6028
This British poet wrote, "When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide" John Milton DD $1,000 DJ POETS & POETRY 2009-07-24 #5745
Blind by 1652 / 22 years of life remained / Still much for him to do / Like pen "Paradise Regained" Milton $600 J ROTTEN POETRY ABOUT GOOD POETS 2009-02-04 #5623
"His pride had cast him out from heaven, with all his host of rebel angels" Milton $400 DJ NAME THE POET 2007-02-19 #5171
He completed a sonnet "On His Blindness" circa 1655 & one "On His Deceased Wife" in 1658 John Milton $600 DJ POETS 1998-01-08 #3079
In a preface to "Paradise Lost" he called rhyme "The invention of a barbarous age, to set off...lame meter" John Milton $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 1997-07-04 #2975
He wrote an ode called "On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity" decades before "Paradise Lost" John Milton $200 DJ POETS & POETRY 1997-05-13 #2937
He followed up "Paradise Lost" with "Paradise Regained" Milton $200 DJ POETS & POETRY 1996-09-27 #2775
He abandoned his long-planned epic about King Arthur to write what became "Paradise Lost" Milton $200 DJ EPIC POETS & POETRY 1996-04-23 #2692
"They also serve who only stand and wait" is from this poet's "On His Blindness" (John) Milton $1,000 DJ POETS & POETRY 1996-02-21 #2648
This poet's widow sold all the rights to "Paradise Lost" for a mere £8 Milton $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 1994-06-27 #2276
"They also serve who only stand and wait" is the last line of this poet's "On His Blindness" (John) Milton $1,000 DJ POETS 1990-11-30 #1440
"When I consider how my light is spent, ere half my days, in this dark world and wide..." Milton DD $1,000 DJ NAME THAT POET 1989-06-20 #1122
In "On His Blindness" this blind poet wrote, "They also serve who only stand and wait" (John) Milton $1,000 DJ POETRY 1988-11-08 #962
Don Marquis defined poetry as what this poet saw "when he went blind" Milton $600 DJ POETRY 1985-05-20 #181
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