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✍️🌱 #JohnMilton 'Song. On May Morning' (c. 1629) (Image: Jean Mackay, 2021)
Paradise Lost by John Milton. Airplane II: The Sequel (Ken Finkleman, 1982) #BooksInFilms #BooksInMovies #BooksOnScreen #JohnMilton #KenFinkleman #RobertHays. Explore more real books in films in Instagram instagram.com/booksinfilms1
#29Abril1880. Se inaugura en El Retiro de Madrid la escultura "El Ángel Caído" de Ricardo Bellver. “Por su orgullo cae arrojado del cielo con toda su hueste de ángeles rebeldes para no volver a él jamás". #JohnMilton madridsecreto.co/angel-caido-re…
📚🤴🪓 It's 1660 and the political tables have turned. Those involved in the trial & execution of Charles I back in 1649 now face trial & a grim death themselves. THE BLIND FUGITIVE follows their fates, as well as what happens to #JohnMilton, a leading apologist for the regicide.
📚🤴🪓 It's 1660 and the political tables have turned. Those involved in the trial & execution of Charles I back in 1649 now face trial & a grim death themselves. THE BLIND FUGITIVE follows their fates, as well as what happens to #JohnMilton, a leading apologist for the regicide. https://t.co/774ivR3WqM
#OnThisMonth in 1638, #JohnMilton gets his passport! 🛂📘🏖 Following his mother's death, John has decided to travel & jots down this couplet on the back of the letter enclosing his passport: 'Fix here ye overdated spheres That wing the restless foot of time.' 👩🚒📆🪐🌍🪽🦶⏳️
📚✍️🔥➰️ 'This book is most deserving of burning; its author, of the gallows.' So wrote the Earl of Bridgwater 👇 in his copy of #JohnMilton's DEFENCE OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE (for regicide). As a child, the Earl acted in Milton's COMUS. In 1660, Milton's books were indeed burned.
📚✍️🔥➰️ 'This book is most deserving of burning; its author, of the gallows.' So wrote the Earl of Bridgwater 👇 in his copy of #JohnMilton's DEFENCE OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE (for regicide). As a child, the Earl acted in Milton's COMUS. In 1660, Milton's books were indeed burned. https://t.co/fG3TcZtPAS
✍️ #OnThisMonth in 1648, #JohnMilton translates Psalms 80 to 88. The great emotional pain they express influenced my understanding of the poet during a period that coincides with the last year of King Charles I's life: amazon.co.uk/Image-King-Jul…
#onthisday 27 April 1667 – Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register. #johnmilton #paradiselost
Il #27aprile 1667 #JohnMilton, ormai cieco e ridotto in povertà, vende per 10 sterline i diritti del suo poema epico in 12 libri Paradiso perduto. M. cerca di riconciliare la tradizione pagana e quella cristiana, conglobando nella storia paganesimo, cristianità e classici greci.
This day in 1667. Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register. #stationers #johnmilton #paradiselost #milton #paradise #register #sells #lost #sell #1667
“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” ✒️#OTD in the #History of #Literature 27 April 1667, the great English poet #JohnMilton, blind and destitute, sold the copyright of his epic poem "Paradise Lost" for £10.
✍️➰️#JohnMilton, republican poet & Latin secretary to Cromwell, deserved hanging - according to Sir Heneage Finch 👇. Finch was the royalist Solicitor-General who prosecuted the regicides in the year of the Restoration. How, then, did Milton survive to complete PARADISE LOST?
✍️➰️#JohnMilton, republican poet & Latin secretary to Cromwell, deserved hanging - according to Sir Heneage Finch 👇. Finch was the royalist Solicitor-General who prosecuted the regicides in the year of the Restoration. How, then, did Milton survive to complete PARADISE LOST? https://t.co/AWtEmqEKB2
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#OTD in 1659, a letter translated by #JohnMilton is signed. It's from Richard Cromwell (Olly's heir) to 👑 Charles of Sweden. An English merchant needs permission to export hemp (L) from Riga (R). Meantime, Richard has got bigger political 🐠 to 🍳! amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CTHPYHR5
✍️ 📻 This radio play episode is about #JohnMilton writing LYCIDAS, one of the greatest elegies of all time. The excerpts from the poem are read VERY beautifully. Thanks to @for_fi for kindly telling me about it after she read my novel THE BLIND FUGITIVE. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
✍️😈 #OTD in 1731, #DanielDefoe died - uncharacteristically - of 'a lethargy'. He was a prolific writer. His little-known study of the Devil in 1726 playfully took issue with #JohnMilton's PARADISE LOST. For my imagination of the poem's political origins: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CTHPYHR5
✍️ #JohnMilton looking a bit peaky (Fuseli, 1794) artic.edu/artworks/44739…
✍️ #JohnMilton looking a bit peaky (Fuseli, 1794) artic.edu/artworks/44739… https://t.co/5vaJ1VLXyN