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Beautiful and intricate, but also hard to love. Milton is a spectacular poet, but there's something about the poem that kept me from appreciating it beyond its
by briga 9y ago
Beautiful and intricate, but also hard to love. Milton is a spectacular poet, but there's something about the poem that kept me from appreciating it beyond its aesthetics. It's similar to Dante's epic in that sense, lovely and complex, but also so lofty and serious that it felt like it wasn't written for mere mortals like me.
That said, I still think it deserves its place in world literature as one of the testaments to human creativity.
- emodendroket 9y agoI found parts of it tough going the first time but I should revisit it sometime.
- coldtea 9y ago>but also so lofty and serious that it felt like it wasn't written for mere mortals like me. Well, it was written with the well-educated, versed in classics and latin and (then) contemporary social/political references, "Italian" audience of its time in mind...