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Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667 CE) - #45
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I only read selected poems for TWEM poetry:
Elegy 1, 12, The Flea, Song, The Sun Rising, The Canonization, Air and Angels, Love's Alchemy, The Bait, A Valediction: Forbidding and Mourning, The Ecstasy, and the last one, Holy Sonnets, I did not find in my copy (it was probably there and I did not look thoroughly enough). Instead I read A Hymn to Christ. ...more
Elegy 1, 12, The Flea, Song, The Sun Rising, The Canonization, Air and Angels, Love's Alchemy, The Bait, A Valediction: Forbidding and Mourning, The Ecstasy, and the last one, Holy Sonnets, I did not find in my copy (it was probably there and I did not look thoroughly enough). Instead I read A Hymn to Christ. ...more

Meh. Technically I didn't finish this, but I only had about 40 pages left and the group of poems really didn't insterest me, so I'm just going to call it good. This one took me a while, and I probably wouldn't have read it if it weren't for it being on The Well Educated Mind list. But there were a few nuggets I enjoyed, so I'm going to be generous with my rating.
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