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Milton's influential works, such as "Paradise Lost," helped shape English poetry by showcasing the use of blank verse and epic conventions. His focus on complex themes, intricate language, and classical influences set a high standard for future poets to aspire to. Milton's emphasis on individual expression and exploration of moral and religious topics also had a lasting impact on the development of English poetry.
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What has the author Gregory Machacek written?
Gregory Machacek has written: 'Milton and Homer' -- subject(s): Greek influences, Sources, Intertextuality, Influence, English poetry
What has the author Margaret Lewis Bailey written?
Margaret Lewis Bailey has written: 'Milton and Jakob Boehme' -- subject(s): German influences, Religion, Appreciation, German literature, Influence, Mysticism in literature, History, English poetry, History and criticism, Christianity and literature, Christian poetry, English, Mysticism
How did Shakespeare and Milton influence the English language?
Shakespeare invented nearly 1,700 common English words.
What has the author Christopher Grose written?
Christopher Grose has written: 'Milton and the sense of tradition' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, English Christian poetry, English poetry, History and criticism, In literature
What has the author Richard Mallette written?
Richard Mallette has written: 'Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance pastoral' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, English Pastoral poetry, English poetry, History and criticism, Pastoral poetry, English, Renaissance 'Spenser and the discourses of Reformation England' -- subject(s): Christianity and literature, English Epic poetry, Epic poetry, English, History, History and criticism, Protestantism and literature, Reformation, Religion
What has the author Bette Charlene Werner written?
Bette Charlene Werner has written: 'Blake's vision of the poetry of Milton' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, English poetry, Illustrations
What has the author Steven Matthews written?
Steven Matthews has written: 'Yeats as precursor' -- subject(s): American poetry, English poetry, History and criticism, Influence, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Intellectual life, Irish authors, Irish influences 'Irish poetry' -- subject(s): English Political poetry, English poetry, History, History and criticism, In literature, Intellectual life, Irish authors, Literature and history, Politics and literature
What has the author W G Tarrant written?
W. G. Tarrant has written: 'The story and significance of the Unitarian movement' -- subject(s): Unitarianism, History 'Florence Nightingale as a religious thinker' 'John Milton' 'Songs devout' -- subject(s): Christian poetry, English, English Christian poetry, English Hymns, Hymns, English 'Home prayers for young people' 'Milton and Religious Freedom' 'Supreme hours'
What is blank poetry?
Blank poetry, also known as blank verse, is poetry written with regular meter but without rhyme. It is typically composed in iambic pentameter and is commonly found in English literature. Notable examples include the works of Shakespeare and Milton.
What has the author Douglas Bush written?
Douglas Bush has written: 'Classical influence in Renaissance literature' -- subject(s): Classical and modern, Comparative Literature, Modern and classical 'Paradise lost in our time' -- subject(s): Milton, John, 1608-1674 'Paradise Lost in Our Times' 'Engaged & disengaged' -- subject(s): Addresses, essays, lectures, American literature, English literature, History and criticism 'Jane Austen' -- subject(s): Biography, English Novelists 'Jane Austen' -- subject(s): English Novelists, Biography 'The influence of Marlowe's Hero and Leander on early mythological poems' 'Classical influences in Renaissance literature' -- subject(s): Classical and modern, Comparative Literature, Modern and classical 'Mythology and the romantic tradition in English poetry' -- subject(s): American poetry, England, English poetry, History and criticism, Mythology in literature, Romanticism 'The Essential Milton' 'The Renaissance and English humanism' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, Humanism, Renaissance 'American literary criticism' -- subject(s): American literature, Criticism, History and criticism 'John Keats' 'English poetry' -- subject(s): English poetry, History and criticism
What has the author Lee Milton Hollander written?
Lee Milton Hollander has written: 'Njal's Saga' 'Prefixal s in Germanic, together with the etymologies of fratze, schraube, guter dinge' -- subject(s): Germanic languages, Consonants, Etymology 'The skalds, a selection of their poems' -- subject(s): Old Norse poetry, Translations into English, History and criticism, Scalds and scaldic poetry, Translations from Old Norse, English poetry 'The Poetic Edda'
What has the author Sanford Budick written?
Sanford Budick has written: 'Poetry of civilization' -- subject(s): History and criticism, English poetry, Demythologization (Literature), Myth in literature 'Kant and Milton' 'Dryden and the abyss of light' -- subject(s): English Christian poetry, Religion, History and criticism, Christianity and literature, History
