Lycidas

Name: Lycidas
Author: John Milton

by John Milton

Elegy mourning death of fellow poet with meditation on poetic immortality and loss

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John Milton

English poet whose Paradise Lost is arguably the greatest epic poem in the English language, retelling the fall of humankind with grandeur and moral seriousness. Deeply engaged with Puritan theology and republican politics.

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