John Milton @MCQs @Literature @TGT @Literature English @UPTGT @NET @LT @learnenglishwithanuj

John Milton @MCQs @Literature @TGT @Literature English @UPTGT @NET @LT ‪@learnenglishwithanuj‬ @Milton as a child of Renaissance and Reformation @John Milton was the greatest English poet after Shakespeare. @John Milton is a belated Elizabethan @John Dryden called Milton as the “poet of the sublime.” Dryden said, “Milton was the Poetic son of Spenser.” @Mathew Arnold called Milton’s style as “Grand Style.” @Addison says, “Our language sunk under him.” @Alfred Lord Tennyson called Milton “The mighty mouthe inventor of harmonies- god gifted organ voice of England.” @Matthew Arnold remarked. "In the sure and flawless perfection of his rhythm and diction, he is as admirable as Virgil or Dante, and in this respect he is unique amongst us. ...... But sureness of perfect .. style Shakespeare himself does not possess. Milton from one end of Paradise Lost to the other, is in his diction and rhythm constantly a great artist in the great style." Dryden exclaimed: “He cuts us all out and the Ancients too.” @Dr. Johnson found ‘Comus’ tedious. About Milton’s Lycidas, Dr. Johnson observed, “diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and numbers unpleasing.” @Dr. Johnson appreciated “Paradise Lost” as “A poem which… with respect to design may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of human mind.” @William Blake placed Edmund Spenser as Milton’s precursor, and saw himself as Milton’s Poetical son. @William Wordsworth began his sonnet, "London, 1802," with – “Milton! Thou should’st be living at this hour.” @William Hayley in his 1796 biography called him “the greatest English author.” @S. T. Coleridge said, “Shakespeare’s poetry is characterless. It doesn’t reflect the individual Shakespeare, but John Milton himself is in every line of the Paradise Lost.” @T.S. Eliot in his essay “The Metaphysical Poets” (1921) used a phrase “Dissociation of sensibility.”