Milton


Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Areopagitica
Samson Agonistes
Capitalism and Freedom
A Preface to Paradise Lost
L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas
John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought
The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies)
The Cleaner (John Milton, #1)
Headhunters (John Milton, #7)
The Driver (John Milton, #3)
Saint Death (John Milton #2)
Twelve Days (John Milton, #14)
Sleepers (John Milton, #13)
Beppe Fenoglio
Era successo proprio all’altezza dell’ultimo ciliegio. Lei aveva attraversato il vialetto ed era entrata nel prato oltre i ciliegi. Si era sdraiata, sebbene vestisse di bianco e l’erba non fosse più tiepida. Si era raccolta nelle mani a conca la nuca e le trecce e fissava il sole. Ma come lui accennò ad entrare nel prato gridò di no. «Resta dove sei. Appoggiati al tronco del ciliegio. Così». Poi, guardando il sole, disse: «Sei brutto». Milton assentì con gli occhi e lei riprese: «Hai occhi stupe ...more
Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata

Helen Bevington
The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks ...more
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